The image sent to our offices by Uri, and the one he was trying to communicate to readers telepathically, was the star. Readers responded with pictures including a desert island with palm trees, and a castle. One reader connected, however, and sent in a star. It was signed only 'Andy S'.

If Andy would like to get in touch with Maxine Gordon on (01904) 653051 ext 369, we can arrange his prize. Now on with Uri's Weird & Wonderful world...

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Join Uri Geller, the world's most celebrated paranormalist, as he counts down to the Year 2000 - proving that the world is getting weirder every day.

Day 393 - Friday, December 4

Time is slowing down as we approach 2,000 - because light itself is slowing. And it has been ever since the Big Bang, according to Dr Joao Magueijo, a Royal Society research fellow at Imperial College, London. He claims light travelled 70 trillion trillion trillion times faster at the moment of creation - which explains why the universe is so big.

Day 392 - Saturday, December 5

Neuroscientists in Amsterdam have revived dead brain cells with massive doses of oxygen. Brain tissue taken from eight-hour-old corpses was bathed in a solution of 95 per cent oxygen, five times stronger than normal air. Tracer chemicals used to track neuron pathways were injected and physicians Jaipei Dai, Dick Swaab and Ruud Buijs were astounded to see the brains sputter back to life.

Day 391 - Sunday December 6

Baby elephants are being grown inside mice at Pardue University, Indianapolis. Researcher John Critser implanted a fertilised elephant's ovum into a mouse's ovary. The egg, taken from an elephant slaughtered by poachers, was so tiny that no harm was done to the little creature.

Day 390 - Monday December 7

Dr Jeanne Lee Crews, a specialist in hyper-velocity impact at Nasa, is designing the biggest airbag in the universe. She fears the 35 million pieces of space junk orbiting our planet, almost all smaller than 10mm across, are smashing each other into dust which will create a deadly light-blocking cloud. Her solution - a 10km shock-absorbing balloon in space. "It might be expensive and a technical challenge," she admits, "but it sure isn't crazy."

Day 389 - Tuesday December 8

Humans are putting metal into space faster than any balloon could soak it up. The £60 billion International Space Station, the biggest civil engineering project ever seen, will be built in orbit, with 45 separate shuttle missions taking components to the building site. The 361-foot craft will be fully functional by 2004 - if the 100,000 scientists and technos keep to schedule.

Day 388 - Wednesday December 9

Pre-historic man lived in terror of a Deep Impact asteroid strike, says comet-watcher Dr Duncan Steel, who believes Stonehenge was designed to give early warning of meteor storms. He claims the Long Barrows were not Iron Age burial chambers - "They look like air raid shelters, so perhaps that's what they were."

Day 387 - Thursday December 10

Alien lifeforms could be teeming below the Earth's crust - and we don't know how to recognise them, says Dr Tom Gold, emeritus professor of astronomy at Cornell University, US. He imagines organisms based on silicon, instead of the carbon molecules that form the building blocks of all life as we know it. "It's speculative but logical," he says in his latest book, The Deep Hot Biosphere.

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