The face of Ringo Starr has been seen in a droplet of water bouncing on a lotus leaf. No come back, this is Turin shroud stuff...allegedly.

A team researching water-repellent leaf behaviour at Duke University in North Carolina took high-speed images, showing water drops bouncing on the surface of a leaf. James Dacey, a reporter for Physics World, wrote the story up for the magazine’s website.

“The Starkey Effect: Ringo keeps psychedelia alive” says Mr Dacey, "and this is the first time I have seen the image of a Beatle in a physics experiment". Really? You decide. A certain Mr George Harrison was once quoted as saying “Life is like a raindrop on a lotus leaf”.