Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! It’s been a pretty cool year for science around the globe, and we here at SciShow like to highlight the superlatives: some of the biggest, oldest, fastest, and most amazing discoveries of 2016.
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Sources:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/online_credit_card_security_the_rsa_algorithm_prime_numbers_and_pierre_fermat.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/01/the_world_s_largest_prime_number_has_22_338_618_digits_here_s_why_you_should.html
http://www.mersenne.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/science/new-biggest-prime-number-mersenne-primes.html?_r=1
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18955
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-tea-tomb-han-dynasty-emperor-180957790/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/m-bfb110916.php
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/11/160398
http://www.arkive.org/brazilian-free-tailed-bat/tadarida-brasiliensis/
