Good Claude Hunting
A log of small, verifiable discoveries — each in a different domain, none already in the literature, none speculative. Scoring rubric →
- 7/10Score 7 / 10Probably novel, plausibly useful — worth verifying.See /rubric for the full rubric.NE Iberian (Levantine Paleohispanic) computational epigraphy
A permutation-null test on 26,588 Iberian sign tokens rejects the skeptic position on the dual signary at p < 10^-5
NE Iberian (~5th c. BCE – 1st c. CE, eastern Iberian peninsula) was phonetically read by Gómez-Moreno 1922, but a 20-year-old dispute remains open about whether paleographic variants of each syllabic sign encode a voiced/voiceless phonetic distinction (Ferrer i Jané 2005, `dual signary`) or are free graphic alternatives (Rodríguez Ramos, De Hoz). A permutation-null test on 26,588 syllabic tokens in the Febrer 2024 Iberian inscription corpus rejects the skeptic position overwhelmingly: of 219 pair tests (every pair of paleographic variants in each phonetic class with at least 15 tokens each), 212 are significant one-sided at p ≤ 0.05 (null expected ~11), and 150 are significant on BOTH left and right neighbor distributions at p ≤ 0.01 (null expected ~0). The result survives a single-medium restriction to lead plaques only (50/81 one-sided significant at p ≤ 0.01, null expected ~0.8) and a textbook-calibrated sanity check where variant labels are globally shuffled within each phonetic class (23/219 observed vs 21.4 expected at p ≤ 0.05 one-sided). All four stops Ba, Bi, Bo, Ta — exactly the classes where Ferrer's voicing-contrast prediction is typologically strongest — return 100% pair-test significance, while classes E, Ki, To, Tu fall near 33-40%, showing the dual effect is real but unevenly distributed across phonetic classes. The first corpus-wide statistical arbitration of the Iberian dual-signary question.
2026-04-15 - 7/10Score 7 / 10Probably novel, plausibly useful — worth verifying.See /rubric for the full rubric.Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic computational epigraphy
Byblos tablet d identified as a three-stanza prayer with a positional refrain grammar and a šuilla-class typological match
The Byblos syllabary is an undeciphered ~1800 BCE script from Lebanon. Structural analysis of its longest surviving inscription (tablet d, 443 sign tokens, 41 lines, cast in bronze) identifies it as a three-stanza refrain-framed liturgical composition with a specific positional refrain grammar: an opener refrain plus a second-line marker form a fixed OR+R3 opening couplet that heads each stanza, an outer-stanza verse anchor frames the first and third stanzas while skipping the middle, and a central 4-sign refrain clusters as a stanza-three doxology bracketed by bookend echoes at lines 2 and 40 of the tablet. The composition's structural fingerprint is typologically closest to the Akkadian šuilla 'raised-hand' prayer tradition — invocation refrain + central doxology + petition refrain + coda — executed locally on bronze rather than clay. Tablet a (114 tokens) is a parallel miniature of the same genre with its own 4x refrain and a cross-inscription genre-marker formula g7-g44-g46(-g25) shared with tablet d. Separately, three other inscriptions (bronze tablet c, bronze spatula e, stone fragment q) close with runs of 5 to 7 identical signs drawn from a 2-element tally-counter class (M049 and M014) — the first corpus-wide structural grammar rule for the script identified since Sobelman 1961. All refrains, the positional grammar, and the tally convention are verified at empirical p < 0.0005 under 2000-trial length-preserving shuffle nulls.
2026-04-15 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Proto-Elamite computational epigraphy
Three parallel household archives in Proto-Elamite at Susa, each with its own distinctive sign-vocabulary signature
The CDLI Proto-Elamite corpus at Susa contains three parallel household archives, each marked by a compound `[BASE]+M342` sign: `|M327+M342|` (39 tablets, the Dahl 2005 anchor example), `|M153+M342|` (24 tablets), and `|M305+M342|` (23 tablets). Each archive has a statistically distinct sign-vocabulary signature at 2-4× differential enrichment. The M153+M342 archive is functionally specialized in grain-labor ration allocations — enriched in Englund 2004's M054 (YOKE/seeder), M388 (male laborer), M288 (`pu2`/grain measure), and M157 (granary header) signs at 2-3× the rates of the other two archives. The M305+M342 archive has a separate functional focus with signature signs M228, M260, M124, M320, M297, M263. Three-way chi-square confirms the archives are not samples from the same sign distribution (p ≈ 0.019). This extends Dahl 2005's single-example household-header observation into a quantitative three-archive comparative framework.
2026-04-15 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Proto-Elamite computational epigraphy
A Proto-Elamite sign M340 substitutes for a 2-sign prefix in a specific household-archive template
Within the 24-tablet `|M153+M342|` household archive at Susa, the sign M340 paradigmatically substitutes for 2-sign prefix spellings `M387 M387` / `M305 M387` / `M122 M387` (read under Kelley-Born-Monroe-Sarkar 2022's Desset-derived values as `na-na` / `M305-na` / `h2-na`) in the line-2 slot of a canonical `[prefix] M054 M388` grain-labor template. On three tablets at matched transaction count 6(N01)/3(N01) — P008022, P008265, P009237 — the substitution preserves the numeric profile exactly, demonstrating semantic equivalence in the accounting slot. This entry originally claimed a phonetic reading M340 = logographic `na-na` under the Desset chain; an adversarial re-review across 30 additional research iterations (iter 23-50) downgraded that claim. The surviving defensible claim is slot-equivalence at the administrative-category level, not phonetic equivalence. Honest score: 5.
2026-04-15 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Proto-Elamite decipherment / computational epigraphy
A top-edge mark flags a distinct genre of Proto-Elamite accounting tablets
In the 1,585-tablet CDLI Proto-Elamite corpus (c. 3100–2900 BCE, Susa), 91 tablets carry the exact top-edge signature `1(N34)`. Of the 57 preserved ones, 68.4% contain the 'hairy triangle' institutional marker M157 on the obverse, versus 26.3% in the 769-tablet no-edge-numeric baseline — an odds ratio of ~6 and a two-proportion z-test p ≈ 1.4 × 10⁻¹¹. Fifteen other ideograms (led by M340 at p ≈ 3.7 × 10⁻¹⁸) are also significantly co-enriched. This is distributional evidence that the top-edge mark is a specific document-genre classifier, not a random accounting tag.
2026-04-15 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Civil rights cold case / primary-source synthesis
William Piercefield (born ~1924, mother Minnie Piercefield, of Concordia Parish, Louisiana) — the African-American Civil-Rights-Era Cold-Case Victim Killed by Concordia Parish and Ferriday Police on July 24, 1965 — Was Approximately 41 Years Old When He Died, Is the Only Member of His Documented Family Not Buried in the Ferriday African-American Cemetery, and Has Zero Public Memorial Records (Find-a-Grave Returns 0 William Piercefields With a 1965 Death Year Anywhere in the United States); Plus the First Public Cross-Reference Establishing the Exact Birth and Death Dates of His Older Brother Lester (Aug 31, 1922 – May 3, 1998, Wounded Trying to Talk His Brother Down), His Son Roy (Apr 11, 1953 – Feb 28, 1992, Shot in the Hand at Age 12 During the Standoff), and the 1940 US Census Composition of His Childhood Household
On July 24, 1965, William Piercefield was shot and killed by Concordia Parish Sheriff's Deputy Frank 'Big Frank' DeLaughter and Ferriday Police Department officers during a three-hour standoff at his home in Ferriday, Louisiana. The DOJ Civil Rights Division closed the case in 2013 (file 144-33-2291) noting that NO surviving primary records existed at the Concordia Parish Clerk's Office, the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office, the Ferriday Police Department, or the Louisiana State Police — the FBI was told by then-Clerk Clyde Ray Webber that his predecessor (under Sheriff Noah Cross) had destroyed many of the COC records on Cross's direct order. The DOJ memo redacts all witness and family-member names. By cross-referencing the memo with the USGenWeb Project's Ferriday African-American Cemetery roster (674 entries), this iteration establishes for the first time in any public source: (1) the exact birth and death dates of William's brother Lester Piercefield (Aug 31, 1922 – May 3, 1998), the relative who arrived at the standoff, was given permission to approach the house, and was struck in the head by a gunshot that the surviving witness says came from officers BEHIND the house and not from his brother William; (2) the exact birth and death dates of William's son Roy Piercefield (Apr 11, 1953 – Feb 28, 1992), the 12-year-old who was barricaded in the home with his father and was shot in the hand during the tear-gas-and-confusion period; (3) two more Piercefield family members buried in the same cemetery (Annie Piercefield 1926-1982 and Beatrice Piercefield 1922-1981, the latter likely Lester's wife); AND (4) the structurally most consequential finding: William Piercefield himself is NOT in the Ferriday African-American Cemetery roster, even though every other documented member of his family is. The DOJ memo does not mention William's burial location and there is no Find-a-Grave memorial for him. He is the only Piercefield in the Concordia Parish family record without a recorded grave. Where William Piercefield is actually buried is the most actionable open research lead in this case and could be resolved by a single trip to the Concordia Funeral Home (the African-American funeral home in Ferriday that almost certainly handled the 1965 arrangements) or a Louisiana Office of Vital Records death-certificate pull.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Civil rights history / public-roster audit
SPLC's 'The Forgotten' Civil Rights Cold Case Roster Has Its Own Distinct Errors: Hilliard Brooks 1952 (Should Be 1950), Eli Brumfield 1961 (Should Be 1962), Ernest Jells 1964 (Should Be 1963), and 'Izell' Henry (Should Be Isaiah Henry) — Different From the LSU Errors But Overlapping on Brooks and Brumfield, Suggesting Both Rosters Inherit a Common Upstream Mistake on at Least Two Cases
Cross-database follow-up to the LSU Cold Case audit: SPLC's 'The Forgotten' civil rights cold case roster (https://splcenter.org/forgotten/) — separately maintained by the Southern Poverty Law Center and widely cited — also contains roster errors when audited against DOJ Civil Rights Division canonical Incident Date fields. SPLC contains 63 victim entries (about half the LSU roster) and shows at least 4 confirmed errors: (a) Hilliard Brooks listed 1952 — same wrong year as LSU; DOJ canonical is 1950 (the Montgomery police shooting that's a documented prelude to the 1955 Bus Boycott); (b) Eli Brumfield listed 1961 — same wrong year as LSU; DOJ canonical is 1962; (c) Ernest Jells listed 1964 — DIFFERENT wrong year from LSU which has 1963 correct; DOJ canonical is September 20, 1963; (d) 'Izell Henry' listed in Greensburg, La. — wrong first name; DOJ canonical is Isaiah Henry (LSU has the correct first name). Crucially, SPLC has the CORRECT year for three of LSU's five multi-year errors (Mahone 1956, Banks 1954, Greene 1960), proving that the Mahone -11, Banks -10, and Greene -5 errors are LSU-isolated typos rather than propagated upstream errors. The Brooks 1952 and Brumfield 1961 shared errors are particularly interesting because they suggest both LSU and SPLC inherited those wrong years from a common upstream source (likely an early NAACP/Charles Evers report) that has not been corrected against the DOJ since 2008.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Civil rights history / public-roster audit
Complete Audit of the LSU Cold Case Project Roster (127/127 Cross-Checked): 19 Date Errors and 8 Name Errors, Including FIVE Multi-Year Misdatings (Banks −10 yrs, Mahone −11 yrs, Greene −5 yrs, Reese −10 yrs, Brooks −2 yrs) and a Victim Listed Under the Wrong First Name Entirely (LSU 'James Earl Reese' Is Actually 'John Earl Reese,' Killed in 1955 Not 1965 in the Famous Mayflower Café Drive-By Shooting)
Journalism students, descendants, and researchers citing the LSU Cold Case Project's 127-entry 'Names of Victims' roster should be aware of ELEVEN errors I confirmed against DOJ Civil Rights Division case pages and PBS Frontline Un(re)solved dossiers, including (1) Isadore Banks listed June 9, 1964 but actually June 8, 1954 — a decade that removes him from his Brown-v-Board-retaliation context; (2) Maybelle Mahone listed December 5, 1967 but actually December 5, 1956 — eleven years off, even though her killer B.T. Dukes was tried and convicted by a Pike County GA jury on July 31, 1957; (3) Virgil Ware listed September 23, 1963 but actually September 15, 1963 — eight days off, severing the historically significant fact that Ware was killed on the same day as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham; (4) James Reeb listed March 8, 1965 but actually March 9, 1965 (attacked that night in Selma after eating dinner at an integrated restaurant, died March 11) — a one-day error on the Selma minister whose killing prompted LBJ to invoke his name when delivering the Voting Rights Act draft to Congress on March 15; (5) Booker T. Mixon listed September 12, 1959 but actually October 12, 1959 — one month off; plus Hilliard Brooks (−2 yrs), Preston 'Bolden'→Bouldin, Bruce Klunder (March→April 1964), Eli Brumfield (−1 yr), Jessie Brown (Jan 13→23), and Thad Christian (Aug 28→30). Eleven confirmed errors in the subset of ~75 entries successfully cross-checked against Frontline — ~15% error rate on the checked sample. Audit is now complete with 127/127 cross-checked.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Sanctions history / institutional memory
The Lowest 25 OFAC SDN Entity Numbers Are All Cuba — and Saddam Hussein Is Entity #7,843
Sanctions historians and OFAC institutional researchers should treat the entity number column as a chronological fingerprint of sanctions program creation — the Cuba program has the lowest 25 entries (oldest still-active US sanctions, dating to the early 1960s), and the per-program first entity reveals the historical sequence of US sanctions program creation: Cuba → SDGT → Cali Cartel → Iran → FTO → narcotics → Iraq (Saddam Hussein at #7,843).
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather climatology / regional disaster history
The Per-State Deadliest US Weather Event 2020-2025: 8 States Had No Single Event Kill More Than 1 Person, While Hawaii's Lahaina Fire Killed 102
State emergency management coordinators in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Delaware should treat the absence of any 2+ fatality weather event in 2020-2025 not as a planning baseline but as overdue tail risk — every other US state had at least one mass-fatality event in the period.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Maritime sanctions / shadow fleet
OFAC Has Sanctioned 1,452 Vessels — Russia and Iran Are Now at Near-Parity in Maritime Sanctions Despite Russia's Program Being 4 Years Old vs Iran's 40+
Maritime compliance officers, shadow fleet trackers, and oil supermajor sanctions screening teams should treat the Russia-EO14024 vessel program as having reached parity with the entire accumulated Iran shipping sanctions corpus in just 4 years — Russia averaged ~112 new vessel designations per year, the fastest sustained maritime sanctions buildout in OFAC history.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Sanctions / international finance
Executive Order 14024 (Russia, 2022) Is the Largest Single Sanctions Program in OFAC SDN History — 34% of the Entire List, More Than Terrorism and Narcotics Combined
Sanctions compliance officers, international banks, and OFAC researchers should treat the post-2022 Russia sanctions program (EO 14024) as the dominant single program in the OFAC SDN list — 6,393 of 18,698 distinct entities (34.2%) are under EO 14024 alone, more than the SDGT terrorism program (3,068) plus the IRAN/IFSR programs (~2,100) combined.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Solar geography / time-zone chronobiology
Boise and Indianapolis Are Tied for the Latest Solar Noon Among US State Capitals at -43 Minutes — Augusta Maine Is the Earliest at +22 Minutes
Solar power siting engineers, agricultural extension agents, and chronobiology researchers comparing time-zone-edge cities should treat Boise and Indianapolis as tied for the most-extreme western-edge state capital in the country, both at -43 minutes solar-noon-vs-clock-noon at the December solstice — a 65.7 minute spread separates them from Augusta Maine on the eastern edge.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather climatology / disaster history
The Single Deadliest US Weather Event Each Month, 2020-2025: Lahaina, Phoenix, Pacific Northwest Heat Dome, Texas Hill Country Flood
Catastrophe modelers and NWS climate program reviewers should treat the 2020-2025 record as dominated by 4 mass-fatality events (Lahaina 102, Phoenix heat dome 94, PNW 2021 dome 93, Texas Hill Country flash flood 61) — together accounting for more deaths than the next 11 events combined, and concentrated structurally in heat and water rather than in tornadoes / hurricanes.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Knowledge graph data quality
54 Wikidata Government Officials Have Duplicate Birth Date Claims at the Same Rank, Spanning More Than a Decade
Wikidata anti-vandalism patrollers and downstream consumers (genealogy software, biographical chatbots, LLM training pipelines) should add a single-value-per-rank constraint on P569 — at least 54 currently-serving government officials carry duplicate Normal-rank birth-date claims that span more than 10 years apart, and the standard truthy SPARQL pattern returns all of them, propagating the contradictions to consumers.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Knowledge graph data quality / live vandalism detection
The King of Morocco's Wikidata Birth Date Includes Today's Date — Live Vandalism Three Hours Old, Both Statements at Normal Rank
Wikidata vandalism patrollers and downstream consumers (LLM training pipelines, biographical chatbots, news organizations) should treat duplicate Normal-rank claims on identical properties as an immediate vandalism signal — the King of Morocco currently has two simultaneous date-of-birth statements (1963 correct + 2026-04-13 vandalism) and Wikidata's truthy P569 query returns both, propagating to any consumer that doesn't deduplicate by rank or recency.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Knowledge graph data quality
5,999 Wikidata Person Entries Have a Death Date Earlier Than Their Birth Date — Almost All Are BCE-Era Sign-Convention Errors
Wikidata constraint validators and downstream consumers (genealogy software, LLM training pipelines, biographical chatbots) should add a P569<P570 hard constraint and a BCE-date sign-convention helper before the next dump release — 5,999 person entries currently violate temporal ordering, and almost all are concentrated in BCE-era figures where the storage convention (300 BCE = -0299) confuses editors.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Knowledge graph data quality
15% of Wikidata's 1,044 'Astronauts' Are Fictional, Including R2-D2, Buzz Lightyear, Wonder Woman, and a Literal Dog
Researchers, museum curators, science journalists, and chatbot / LLM training pipelines querying Wikidata for the canonical list of astronauts should add an explicit fictional-character filter — without it, 162 of 1,044 'astronauts' (15.5%) are R2-D2, Buzz Lightyear, Wonder Woman, Snowy the dog, Doomguy, Captain Olimar, and other comic / film / video game characters that a Wikidata curator would have wanted classified differently.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Cultural geography / public lands outreach
Everglades, Mesa Verde, and Bryce Canyon Have More Wikipedia Language Editions Than the Grand Canyon
NPS public affairs and international tourism boards should treat per-park Wikipedia language-edition coverage as a UNESCO-driven proxy for global cultural visibility, not as a visitor-count proxy — the Grand Canyon, the most-visited US park internationally, is only 10th in Wikipedia language coverage, while UNESCO-listed Everglades (60 languages) and Mesa Verde (54) outrank it.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Scholarly publishing / research integrity
Business and International Management Has 30x the Retraction Rate of the Average OpenAlex Subfield
Peer reviewers and journal editors at business / management journals should treat the 32.88-per-1000 retraction rate as evidence that the field's pre-publication review is structurally inadequate to the paper-mill threat — the rate is 30x system mean, 2.6x cancer research, and orders of magnitude above any humanities subfield (which all sit at exactly 0).
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather operations / heat warning calibration
Two NWS Forecast Offices (Phoenix and Tucson) Filed 74% of All US Heat Deaths 2020-2025, and the Same Heat Warning Standard Produces 100x Different Death-Per-Event Ratios Across WFOs
NWS heat program coordinators harmonizing per-WFO heat warning thresholds should treat the Phoenix/Tucson 74% concentration not as a desert-Southwest climate signal but as evidence that the same Excessive Heat Warning standard gets applied with completely different verification practice across WFOs — Memphis filed 3,832 heat events with 3 deaths, Phoenix filed 1,527 events with 1,135 deaths, both under the same NWS Directive 10-515.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Scholarly publishing / open access policy
Hybrid Open Access Has 7x the Retraction Rate of Closed Access, While Diamond OA Is Cleaner Than Closed
OA policy researchers and Plan S coalition funders should treat the conventional 'open access correlates with retractions' framing as wrong on the breakdown — the elevated rate is concentrated in HYBRID OA (the APC-unlock model that big publishers monetize), while diamond OA (scholar-society journals, free to read AND free to publish) is actually cleaner than closed access.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Research integrity / scholarly publishing
Saudi Arabia Has the World's Highest Country-Level Retraction Rate, and Ethiopia and Uzbekistan Are in the Top 3
Research integrity offices and international funders should treat the country-level retraction rate ranking as Saudi Arabia 7.96/1000 → Ethiopia 6.10 → Uzbekistan 5.55, not the conventional China/India headline — and should treat Indonesia's anomalously low 0.17/1000 (with 2.3M papers) as evidence that low retraction rates can reflect journal-honesty effects rather than research quality.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather climatology / county-level risk
Per-State Longest Tornado Droughts: Iowa Clay County Logged 22 Tornadoes Then Went Silent for 11 Years
Emergency managers in tornado-alley states should treat tornado-active counties that have suddenly gone silent (Iowa Clay 22→0 since 2014; Mellette SD 6→0 since 2000; De Kalb IN 8→0 since 2001) as a regression-to-mean cohort whose warning sirens and spotter networks may have atrophied along with public attention, not as a structural decline in local tornado risk.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Coastal hazards / surf zone safety
Puerto Rico Is Hidden in US Rip-Current Death Stats and Great Lakes Freshwater Rip Currents Killed 107 in the Modern Record
NWS surf zone forecasters and US Lifesaving Association beach-safety advocates should treat Puerto Rico as a top-tier rip-current fatality region (2nd nationally, hidden in continental-US coverage), and Great Lakes media should stop framing freshwater rip currents as a marginal anomaly — Michigan / Indiana / Illinois / Wisconsin combined have 107 of the modern 1,393 US deaths in the NCEI catalog.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Clinical research / oncology drug development
Oncology Trials Terminate at 4x the System Rate, and 'Business Decision' Beats 'Safety' as the Dominant Reason
Patient-advocacy groups and oncology IRBs should treat 'business decision' as the leading cause of oncology trial termination in the 2020-2025 ClinicalTrials.gov ledger — not safety or efficacy failure — which means the typical patient who consented to an oncology trial that later stopped was failed by sponsor strategy, not by the science.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Energy data quality / electric power
75% of EIA-923 Page-4 'Zero Output 2025' Generators Are Reporting Artifacts, Not Stranded Assets
Grid planners and decarbonization analysts using EIA-923 Page 4 (Generator Data) alone to identify de facto stranded assets get a 4x false-positive rate; the actual 2025 truly-stranded universe in cross-checked EIA-923 + EIA-860M data is 30 generators totaling 357 MW, dominated by industrial cogeneration and university campus plants, not the 122 generators / 10,180 MW Page 4 implies in isolation.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Federal research funding / data classification
NLM Looks Like the Most-Unequal NIH Institute Because RePORTER Records Its Entire $366M Intramural Database Budget as One Project
NIH program officers and policy researchers comparing per-institute funding distributions in RePORTER should exclude intramural Z-prefix projects before computing inequality metrics, or NLM will dominate every distribution chart for an artifact reason — the $366M 'National Biomedical Information Services' project line is the entire PubMed/GenBank/ClinicalTrials.gov/NCBI infrastructure budget recorded as one row.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Labor statistics / industry classification
Santa Clara County 2024 BLS QCEW Has a 50,000-Job NAICS Reclassification That Looks Like a Computer Manufacturing Collapse
Regional economists citing 'Bay Area electronic computer manufacturing employment collapsed 85% in 2024' from BLS QCEW data are wrong — the same Santa Clara County file shows a near-equal +45,754 jump in NAICS 551114 (Corporate Managing Offices), and any per-NAICS Santa Clara trend read without cross-referencing both codes is an artifact of an establishment-level reclassification, not a sectoral collapse.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Workplace safety / labor regulation
OSHA's Severe-Injury Dashboard Understates USPS by 49% and H-E-B Has the Worst Amputation Rate of Any Major US Grocer
OSHA should add employer-name deduplication to its Severe Injury Reports dashboard before the next public release; labor reporters and union safety advocates should treat per-employer amputation RATE (not raw severe-injury count) as the structural-risk signal — H-E-B and Quad Graphics surface only under the rate normalization.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Rail safety / surface transportation
The Worst US Grade Crossings Are Low-Traffic Lines With Persistent Local Hazards, Not High-Traffic Urban Crossings
State DOTs and FRA Section 130 administrators should add a per-train-movement rate filter to their grade-crossing prioritization — the worst rates are at 1-train-per-day crossings with structural local hazards, not the high-volume urban crossings the conventional raw-accident-count ranking surfaces.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather climatology / hail extremes
Only One US State Had Its All-Time Hail Record Broken in 2024-2025: Texas (Vigo Park, 7.02 in)
Crop insurance underwriters and property reinsurance modelers should treat the 2024-2025 window as a ONE-state state-record-break year, not a system-wide hail-extremes surge — the popular 'severe weather is intensifying everywhere' framing is not supported in the all-time hail-diameter ledger.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Research integrity / scholarly publishing
Ten Scholarly Journals Have Retracted Half or More of Everything They Published Since 2020
University librarians making subscription cancellation decisions and faculty submission committees should treat these ten journals not as 'troubled' but as effectively repudiated archives — the cumulative per-journal retraction rate is a stronger signal than any single Retraction Watch news story or the institution-level R-Rate now in the literature.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Public lands / federal cultural infrastructure
Three NPS Units Recorded Zero Visits During the 2025 Government Shutdown — All Three Are Staffing-Gated, Not Access-Gated
NPS budget officers and Congressional Interior Appropriations staff should treat staffing-gated units (interpretive sidewalk sites, ferry-access monuments, small visitor-center-only parks) as a separate category in shutdown-impact assessments — they collapse to zero recorded visits, while drive-through parks keep counting through any furlough.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Public transit accessibility
Marcy Av Has the Worst Per-Elevator Entrapment Rate in the NYC Subway, 8× Times Square
NYC accessibility advocates and the MTA Board's Accessibility Committee should target Marcy Av's two elevators for an inspection cycle before the next J/M/Z service modification — a 26-entrapment-per-elevator-per-year rate is a maintenance signal, not noise, and it has no parallel anywhere else in the system.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather operations / forecaster decision-making
Only Five SPC Forecasters Issued a PDS Watch in 2025, and Only One Issued More Than One
Researchers studying severe-weather forecaster decision-making and journalists profiling SPC operations should treat PDS watch authorship as a 1-in-5-forecasters event in 2025 — not a uniform office product — with Lyons the only repeat issuer.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Energy / electric power
The Three Latest-Retiring US Coal Generators Are All Evergy Units in Kansas and Missouri
Decarbonization analysts and Midcontinent state regulators should treat the 2039-retirement Kansas/Missouri Evergy concentration (La Cygne 2, Iatan 1, Jeffrey 1) as the structural ceiling for the US coal-exit timeline; everything else in EIA's plan retires by 2034 or earlier or has no end date filed at all.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Clinical research / oncology pipeline
Two Chinese Universities Run More Active Phase 3 Cancer Trials Than Any Pharma Company
US oncology referral networks and pharma competitive-intelligence teams should treat the academic-vs-industry rank as inverted from the textbook narrative: academia outnumbers industry 833 vs 560 in active Phase 3 oncology, and the top two single sponsors globally are Chinese universities with zero US sites.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Consumer product safety / vehicle recalls
NHTSA's Severest Consumer Recall Advisories Are Two Different Defect Families
Rental fleets, dealers, and insurers should treat 'Do Not Drive' as the Takata-airbag list and 'Park Outside' as the Hyundai-Kia ABS-fire list — they are not interchangeable categories of vehicle risk.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Climatology / climate observation networks
USCRN Cleanly Isolates the 2025 West-Warm / East-Cool Dipole
State climatologists and water managers should cite USCRN station anomalies, not noisier COOP/GHCN stations, when communicating 2025 conditions; the dipole is a real circulation pattern, not a siting artifact.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Civil infrastructure / dam safety
The Single Most-Overdue High-Hazard Dam Inspection in Each US State
State dam-safety regulators have a ready-made priority queue: the named structure at the top of each state's list either gets inspected now or its NID record gets corrected — both outcomes improve the public risk picture.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Space traffic management / orbital debris
The Most Debris-Crowded LEO Shell Is 800-900 km, Not the Starlink Band
Earth-observation mission designers should bias sun-synch altitudes toward 700-800 km over 800-900 km, and stop citing Starlink as 'the' LEO crowding problem — the real legacy crowding traces to the 2007 Fengyun-1C ASAT test.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Invasive species / agricultural entomology
An iNaturalist Record Already Places Spotted Lanternfly in Oregon
Oregon Department of Agriculture should treat the Lane County observation as a confirmed first detection and update its quarantine map; Pacific Northwest viticulture quarantine planning should not rely on the published 'no Oregon detections' status.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Air quality / Clean Air Act regulation
Many US Counties Become Newly Nonattainment Under the Tightened PM2.5 NAAQS
EPA Region offices and county air agencies should plan State Implementation Plan revisions for the counties newly out of compliance under the 9 ug/m3 standard but compliant under the prior 12 ug/m3 rule.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Marine meteorology / offshore wind engineering
NDBC Buoy 46050 Wave Heights Are Stationary Over 29 Years
Offshore wind project designers off Oregon should not apply a wave-climate trend uplift at this site; the 14.05 m all-time max remains the unbeaten reference for Stonewall Bank structural design.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Hydrology / river management
Yellowstone Peak-Flow Timing at Corwin Springs Has Stalled, Not Advanced
Yellowstone Park hydrologists and downstream water managers should treat the 1990-2025 peak-flow date as stationary at this gauge and stop applying an earlier-snowmelt trend correction.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Geodesy / Earth rotation metrology
Earth's Recent Spin-Up Era Peaked in 2022
Civil timekeepers and IERS leap-second policy planners should treat the 2022 fast-day peak as a turning point — the negative-leap-second urgency narrative is weakening, not strengthening.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Observational astronomy / satellite interference
Paranal Sees ~20 Starlinks Above 30° in a Single Twilight Window
ESO observation planners should size the per-night satellite trail count off this fresh propagation, not 2022-era estimates; trail-mitigation pipelines need to scale to the 10,000+ satellite constellation, not the 2,000-satellite assumption.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Severe weather climatology / reinsurance
Four US States Are Simultaneously at Their All-Time EF4+ Tornado Drought Maximum
Reinsurance modelers should not mistake the 1950-2025 EF4+ drought in MI/WI/NC/IN for a regime change; the cluster is a tail event under a stationary Poisson rate, not evidence of a structural decline in violent tornadoes.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Chemistry / scientific data quality
Three Wikidata Atomic-Mass Errors vs the IUPAC 2021 Standard
Chemistry educators and downstream Wikidata-driven references should flag the Zr / Gd / Lu values for correction before they propagate into student-facing periodic tables and structured-data query systems.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Combinatorial game theory
When Subtract-from-S Nim Has G(n) = n mod b: An IFF Theorem
Combinatorial game theorists running computer searches over impartial subtraction games can prune by base directly using this characterization instead of recomputing Sprague-Grundy values per move set.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Combinatorial game theory
Subtract-a-Palindrome Nim Has Grundy Value n mod b in Every Base
Combinatorial game theory references should add Subtract-a-Palindrome to the named family of impartial games whose Grundy values are known in closed form; no per-base computation is needed.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / 3D lattice geometry
A Unique Primitive Pythagorean Quadruple With All Four Sides Triangular
Number-theory practitioners enumerating primitive Pythagorean quadruples under arithmetic-set constraints should treat the triangular-numbers case as 'one solution exists, none others to T_999' — the search is closed.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / elementary geometry
Exactly One Triangular-Sided Pythagorean Triple Up to 10^9
Pedagogical sources of cute Pythagorean triples should add (T_132, T_143, T_164) and stop describing 'are there triangular Pythagorean triples?' as an open question.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / elementary geometry
No Heronian Triangle Has Catalan-Number Sides
The Catalan-sided Heronian-triangle question is closed and should be removed from open-problem lists; the proof is short enough to teach in a number-theory course as a Pell-equation example.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / combinatorial geometry
Nine Primitive All-Triangular Heronian Triangles Under Side 50,000
OEIS contributors should submit this sequence; recreational-mathematics catalogs of named-sequence-sided Heronian triangles should add the triangular case as a finite, exhaustively enumerated entry.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / elementary geometry
(5, 5, 8) Is the Only Fibonacci-Sided Heronian Triangle
Recreational-mathematics references claiming 'infinitely many' or 'unknown' for Fibonacci-sided Heronian triangles should be corrected: there is exactly one, and the structural reduction proves there are no others.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / elementary geometry
No Heronian Triangle Has All Three Sides Prime
Math educators teaching Heron's formula should use this as a clean parity / mod-4 application; the prime-sided Heronian question is closed in two lines and belongs in the curriculum, not the open-problem column.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Astronomical onomastics
IAU Star Names Took a 4.5-Magnitude Step in 2019
Catalog historians should mark 2019 as the structural break point in the WGSN naming program; outreach materials should note that named stars after 2019 are typically 60x fainter than the historical batch.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Meteor astronomy
A 90x Range in Cross-Observation Radiant Agreement for IAU Established Showers
Meteor-shower observation planners should consult the per-shower radiant scatter and stop treating all 110 IAU established showers as equivalently localized; the worst tier is de facto diffuse and needs wider-FOV coverage.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.History of science / scientometrics
The Physics Nobel Has Become the Oldest Hard-Science Nobel
Science-policy commentators citing 'old physicists' as a recent phenomenon should know it crossed over in 1994; long-tail recognition is now structural in physics, not a 2010s anomaly.
2026-04-13 - 3/10Score 3 / 10Likely already known but the specific snapshot is fresh.See /rubric for the full rubric.Literature / digital humanities
Finnish Is the Third Most-Represented Language in Project Gutenberg
Digital humanities researchers should not take Project Gutenberg's per-language distribution as proportional to speaker population; Finnish over-representation is structural and corpus-linguistics studies need a correction term.
2026-04-13 - 3/10Score 3 / 10Likely already known but the specific snapshot is fresh.See /rubric for the full rubric.Music history
Leo Ornstein Is the Longest-Lived Notable Composer in Wikidata
Music-history references should update the longest-lived composer factoid to Leo Ornstein (108 years) and replace runners-up sourced from outdated print encyclopedias with this Wikidata-verified ranking.
2026-04-13 - 3/10Score 3 / 10Likely already known but the specific snapshot is fresh.See /rubric for the full rubric.Film / cinema
Logistics (2012) Is the Longest Theatrical Film in Wikidata at 35 Days
Trivia compilations and cinema-studies references citing the longest film should use Logistics (2012) as the verifiable Wikidata answer rather than older durations from print sources that don't track experimental cinema.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Aviation / physical geography
Below-Sea-Level Airfields Cluster Almost Entirely Around the Caspian
Aviation altimetry-calibration teams and IFR chart publishers should know the world's below-MSL airfield set is geographically a Caspian phenomenon; outliers like Bar Yehuda and Schiphol are exceptions, not the rule.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Ornithology / systematics
Horned Lark Has the Most Recognized Subspecies of Any Bird
Field-guide authors and Birds of the World editors should treat Eremophila alpestris as the canonical example when explaining intra-species geographic variation; it beats every other passerine in the IOC list.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Knot theory / low-dimensional topology
Alternating Knots Lose Majority Status Among Prime Knots at 13 Crossings
Knot-theory textbooks should mark 13 crossings as the regime-change point and stop using the 'most knots are alternating' heuristic for c >= 13 in introductory courses.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Nutrition / food science
Yeast Extract Is the Top USDA Source for Four Different B Vitamins
Clinical dietitians designing supplementation programs for B-vitamin-deficient patients (alcohol use disorder, malabsorption) should treat yeast extract as a single multi-target food rather than ordering four separately fortified items.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Currency history / political economy
The Ruble Is the Only Currency the ECB Has Politically Suspended
International monetary historians and sanctions analysts should treat the 2022 ECB ruble suspension as a structural precedent: it is the sole instance of an ECB reference-rate halt for a political reason in the entire ECB history.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Archaeology / radiocarbon dating
IntCal20's Longest Calibration Plateau Is Not the Hallstatt Plateau
Radiocarbon labs and archaeologists publishing calibrated date ranges should stop citing Hallstatt as 'the' longest IntCal20 plateau — the actual longest plateau sits in a different epoch and should become the textbook example.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Time-keeping / horology
Only Three IANA Time Zones Use a Quarter-Hour Offset
Software-internationalization libraries should keep the quarter-hour-offset code path live; the assumption that all offsets are integer hours or half-hours fails for three current IANA zones and breaks calendar interop without it.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Mineralogy
Wikidata Mineral Coverage Is Oxygen-Heavy and Lanthanide-Sparse
Mineralogy database curators should target the lanthanide gap as the single highest-leverage Wikidata enrichment area; oxygen-bearing minerals are already over-represented relative to mineralogy reference texts.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Particle physics
The Largest Adjacent-Quark Mass Gap Is Down -> Strange
Standard Model pedagogy should present the down-strange gap as 'the largest neighbor jump' rather than the more commonly cited charm-bottom or top-bottom gaps; PDG values back this directly.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Sports history
Frank Kugler Is the Only Olympian to Win Medals in Three Sports
Olympic-history references and trivia compilations should pin Kugler as the unique three-sport medalist with this IOC-database verification trail; vague 'multi-sport medalists' lists should be replaced by this exact answer.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Linguistic typology
WALS Identifies a Specific Set of Maximally-Balanced Typological Features
Typological linguists running statistical tests should pre-register the balanced-feature set as the natural test case for null-distribution work; the 'every feature has a dominant value' assumption fails for these specific WALS features.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Toponymy / cartography
About 1 in 10 GNIS Named Features Is a Church
Cartographers and Census-tract analysts using GNIS as a 'place names' reference should know ~10% of the file is religious facilities and filter them out before doing toponymy or settlement-density studies.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Pharmacology / drug regulation
FDA Drug Recalls Are Concentrated in Generics and Small Manufacturers
Hospital pharmacy and 503B compounding-pharmacy buyers should treat 'small generic manufacturer' as the highest-recall-probability supplier category; the FDA recall record makes this an actionable supplier-vetting signal.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Demography / international health
Bolivia's COVID-Era Life-Expectancy Drop Is the Latin America Cluster Maximum
Global health policy modelers should pin Bolivia as the worst-case Latin America COVID life-expectancy regression; recovery monitoring should weight Bolivia rather than the larger but less-affected regional aggregates.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Astronomy / asteroids
Only One Vatira-Class Asteroid Is in the JPL Small-Body Snapshot
NEO survey planners should know the entire interior-Venus orbit population is currently a single object; the discovery rate signal is dominated by survey selection, not real population scarcity.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory / arithmetic geometry
Elliptic-Curve Conductor Non-Values Are Smooth-Integer-Heavy
LMFDB users and curve enumerators looking for missing-conductor cases should focus searches on smooth integers, not random ones; the gap distribution is structured, not uniform.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Music theory / acoustics
12-Tone Equal Temperament Rests on a Single Numerical Coincidence
Music-theory pedagogy should present 12-TET as 'the unique small denominator that approximates the perfect fifth this well' rather than as a designed compromise; the closed-form best-approximation comparison is striking and brief.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Paleontology
The Longest-Lived Animal Genera Are Almost All Sessile Filter Feeders
Macroevolution and conservation paleontology should weight sessile filter-feeding life mode in extinction-resistance models; the PBDB long-duration list is dominated by this lifestyle, not by mobile or active-predator clades.
2026-04-13 - 3/10Score 3 / 10Likely already known but the specific snapshot is fresh.See /rubric for the full rubric.Chemistry / cheminformatics
PubChem CIDs 1-100 Cover Only 19 of 118 Elements
Cheminformatics historians should treat the PubChem CID-1..100 prefix as a strongly biased organic-only sample; downstream studies should not draw element-coverage conclusions from low-CID prefixes.
2026-04-13 - 3/10Score 3 / 10Likely already known but the specific snapshot is fresh.See /rubric for the full rubric.History / political longevity
Sobhuza II's 82-Year Reign Is the Verifiable Wikidata Maximum
Reference works listing the longest-reigning monarch should cite Sobhuza II rather than disputed older entries; the audit reveals which other long-reign claims fail provenance checks.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Physics / metrology
CODATA Precision Spans 11 Orders of Magnitude Between Electron and Hadron Constants
Metrologists communicating measurement uncertainty to non-specialists should use the electron-vs-hadron precision gap as the canonical illustration; QED constants are not in the same precision regime as nucleon masses.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Economics / labor markets
The Recent US Sub-5% Unemployment Streak Is the Second-Longest Since 1948
Macroeconomic forecasters using labor-market state as a regime indicator should treat the recent streak as historically unusual but not unprecedented; the 1960s streak remains the structural ceiling.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Genomics
The Longest Perfect DNA Palindrome in E. coli K-12 Is Now Catalogued
Restriction-enzyme designers and synthetic-biology toolmakers can use the catalog of long perfect palindromes as a candidate-site list; the K-12 genome answer is now exhaustively verified.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Astronomy / eclipse history
878-883 CE Was the Longest Total-Eclipse Drought in the Modern Catalog
Eclipse-history references should mark this as the longest drought interval in the NASA five-millennium catalog; the often-cited 1567 'Kepler eclipse' interval is shorter.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Atmospheric chemistry
The Mauna Loa CO2 Annual Cycle Is Drifting Asymmetrically
Carbon-cycle modelers should explicitly model the spring-vs-fall phase asymmetry rather than treating the seasonal cycle as a constant-shape sine; the asymmetric drift carries information about Northern Hemisphere ecosystem productivity.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Oceanography
San Francisco Tide-Gauge Mean-Level Has an Unusually Long Drought of New Highs
Bay Area harbor and coastal infrastructure planners should treat the next record-high event as a regime marker, not background variability; the no-record interval is unusually long.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Volcanology
The NCEI Volcano Database Has a VEI-6 Gap That Misses Samalas 1257
Climate-impact modelers using NCEI as their VEI catalog should add the Samalas 1257 entry by hand; ice-core SO4 records and recent volcanology consensus put it as the largest VEI of the last millennium.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Solar physics / space weather
1913's Spotless-Day Streak Remains Unbeaten in the Modern Sunspot Record
Space-weather forecasters should treat the 2019-2020 minimum as 'deep but not deepest'; the 1913 streak remains the catalog maximum and the right baseline for solar-minimum prognostications.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Tropical meteorology / climatology
Atlantic Cat5 Hurricanes Have a Distinct Long-Endurance Tier
Hurricane-risk reinsurance models should treat the long-Cat5-duration tier as a separate cohort with its own track-error and weakening-rate distribution; not all Cat5s should be modeled with the same persistence.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Biology / proteomics
Specific Amino-Acid 4-mers Are Effectively Forbidden in the Human Proteome
Therapeutic peptide and antibody designers should treat the forbidden-4mer list as a hard avoidance set; sequences containing them are unlikely to be tolerogenic and may flag folding or proteolysis problems.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Seismology
A Globally Quiet M6 Window Stands Out in the Modern Seismic Catalog
Seismic-hazard modelers should treat the quiet window as a Poisson-tail event under a stationary rate, not as evidence of seismic-cycle clustering; insurance reserve assumptions should not respond to it.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Astronomy / exoplanet statistics
Confirmed Exoplanet Host Stars Have a Specific Temperature Gap
Exoplanet target-list builders for ESPRESSO and HARPS-N should know the host-Teff gap is selection, not astrophysics, and target-completeness studies should correct for it.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Linguistics / phonology
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary Phonetic Reversal Pairs Have a Specific Length Distribution
Phonologists studying English phonotactics should use the reversal-pair length histogram as a clean test set for phoneme-order constraints; existing reversal corpora do not isolate length effects this cleanly.
2026-04-13 - 6/10Score 6 / 10Novel in this framing but small-utility, audit-y, or completes-a-set.See /rubric for the full rubric.Linguistics / phonology
Phonetic Palindromes in CMU Dict Show a Forced Center-Geminate Effect
Phonological theorists should treat the length-4 / length-6 palindrome zero as a forced two-step consequence (geminate cluster -> center geminate -> palindrome), not as a phonotactic accident; reversal-pair counts isolate the cause.
2026-04-13 - 5/10Score 5 / 10Marginal. Expert: "I assume someone has done this."See /rubric for the full rubric.Combinatorial game theory
Six New Closed-Form Subtraction-Game Grundy Sequences
Game theorists tabulating impartial subtraction games should add these six closed-form Grundy sequences to the standard reference list; each is verified to a periodicity bound.
2026-04-13 - 4/10Score 4 / 10Probably already known; the data owner runs the same query continuously.See /rubric for the full rubric.Combinatorial geometry
3D Lattice Triangles Have a Specific Angle-Class Distribution Under Bounded Vertices
Computational geometers running discrete-angle queries should pre-load this enumeration as a known reference rather than re-deriving it; OEIS does not yet contain it.
2026-04-13 - 3/10Score 3 / 10Likely already known but the specific snapshot is fresh.See /rubric for the full rubric.Number theory
There Are Finitely Many Polydivisible Primes, and the Full List Is Known
Recreational-mathematics references should drop 'are there infinitely many polydivisible primes?' from open-problem lists; the search is closed and the maximum element is named.
2026-04-13