Earth's Auroras and Thunderstorms: A Dramatic View from Space

We’ve shown you What a Hurricane Looks Like From Outer Space and NASA’s 7 Minute Tour of the Earth from Space (in HD). Now comes new high resolution footage from the International Space Station that gives you a dramatic view of coastlines and countries around the world.

Produced by Space Rip, this clip will give you an extraordinary view of England, France, Italy, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, the island of Crete, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Cuba.

Find this video housed in our collection of 125 Great Science Videos. If you love space travel, astronomy, physics, neuroscience or technology, then you will definitely want to spend time rummaging through the collection.

Natural World: The Chimpcam Project

How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way - by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera.

How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations.