/claudettes

Daily prompt · 3am ET · Fable 5

Check the web for recent news. Avoid anything political, but use it as inspiration for a 100% Claude-coded mini-application that lives in the top navigation bar of jackhoge under /claudettes.

Claudettes are little apps that I have no opinions about, in fact I'm not involved at all. They run at 3am ET each day with this prompt right here, with Sonnet 4.6.

July 23, 2026/claudettes/lhs-1140bSonnet 4.6LHS 1140 b — Watch helium stream from LHS 1140 b's upper atmosphere as the rocky super-Earth transits its dim red dwarf host 48 light-years away — the first confirmed atmosphere on any rocky planet in a habitable zone, detected via a He I triplet absorption dip at 1083.3 nm by Harvard astronomers using the Magellan Clay Telescope in Chile, published July 17, 2026, closing a 20-year open question in exoplanet science.
July 21, 2026/claudettes/mars-marathonSonnet 4.6Mars Marathon — Watch Perseverance drive 42.195 km across Martian terrain — hit pause, twist the sim speed up to 1000×, and catch every milestone from touchdown (Feb 18, 2021) to marathon finish (Jul 14, 2026) as the rover's camera blinks red and a notification fires on-canvas. Inspired by NASA Perseverance completing a full marathon distance on Mars on July 14, 2026, only the second rover in history to do so.
July 20, 2026/claudettes/silly-sprinklerSonnet 4.6Feynman's Sprinkler — Toggle forward vs reverse on this 4-armed sprinkler and watch the 2026 answer to a 140-year physics puzzle: forward mode ejects focused water jets and spins at ~15 RPM, while reverse mode sucks water in from all directions — momenta cancel — and the sprinkler barely twitches at ~0.4 RPM, confirming the ~40× ratio measured by 'silly sprinkler' experiments and proving that linear fluid momentum p=mv explains both modes.
July 19, 2026/claudettes/bio-plasticSonnet 4.6Living Plastic — Activate engineered bacteria and watch self-destructing living plastic dissolve in six simulated days — click to seed colonies anywhere on the polymer slab, toggle 1×/5×/20× speed, and follow the degradation pathway from ester-bond cleavage to CO₂ + H₂O, inspired by July 2026 research creating a living material where embedded bacteria fully degrade the plastic matrix on command with zero pollution.
July 18, 2026/claudettes/dna-chipSonnet 4.6DNA Chip — Select sites on Harvard's 8×8 silicon chip, pick a nucleotide (A, T, G, C), and watch electrode-driven electrolysis drop local pH — activating TdT enzyme to append one base at a time to 64 anchored DNA strands in parallel, with no toxic solvents and no photomasks, inspired by the July 2026 Harvard breakthrough that produced 64 distinct sequences up to 39 nucleotides long using only electricity and water.
July 17, 2026/claudettes/thermal-memorySonnet 4.6Thermal Memory — Apply a brief voltage pulse to switch GST phase-change material between amorphous and crystalline states, and watch heat redirect — absorb from above, emit upward (Kirchhoff-reciprocal) or downward (non-reciprocal, via magneto-optical time-reversal symmetry breaking) — then cut power to show the state is held with zero energy, inspired by Osaka Metropolitan University's July 2026 breakthrough published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
July 16, 2026/claudettes/optical-skyrmionSonnet 4.6Skyrmion Light — Adjust wavelength and disc diameter, toggle Néel vs Bloch topology, and watch optical skyrmions emerge in the polarization field behind a laser-illuminated disc — inspired by NTU Singapore's July 2026 discovery that the 200-year-old Arago spot (1818) spontaneously generates topologically stable polarization vortices in light, Q = +1, no metamaterials or spatial light modulators required.
July 15, 2026/claudettes/aqua-flapSonnet 4.6Aqua Flap — Tune wing flexibility, span, and leg assist — then watch an untethered flapping-wing robot burst from water into flight in a single motion. Adjust parameters and launch to see how wing design, flexibility, and leg mechanics influence the three-phase aquatic-to-aerial transition, inspired by July 2026 research on how these variables govern aerial–aquatic locomotion in flapping-wing robots.
July 14, 2026/claudettes/wc-semifinalsSonnet 4.6Final Four — France vs Spain in Dallas today, England vs Argentina in Atlanta tomorrow — pick your predicted finalists, watch the bracket update live, and preview the path to the World Cup 2026 final at MetLife Stadium on July 19, inspired by the semifinals kicking off right now.
July 1, 2026/claudettes/goldilocks-45Sonnet 4.6Goldilocks 45 — Explore the 45 rocky exoplanets shortlisted as the most promising habitability candidates, from Bohl et al.'s March 2026 MNRAS catalogue designed to guide JWST biosignature searches — filter by star type, distance, and Earth Similarity Index, and read a profile for each world, with all 17 key candidates plotted in a Mermaid habitability-vs-proximity chart.
June 30, 2026/claudettes/photon-climbSonnet 4.6Photon Climb — Watch visible sunlight photons rain into a sterically engineered organic film and re-emerge as UV light — two photons in, one UV photon out — via triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA). Adjust the light intensity, track absorbed vs emitted photon counts, explore the mechanism in a Mermaid flowchart, and read five fact cards about Kyushu University's June 23, 2026 breakthrough: the first solid-state material to achieve photon upconversion under natural sunlight, with a quantum yield exceeding 60% and ~1.9% visible-to-UV efficiency.
June 29, 2026/claudettes/ballista-spiderSonnet 4.6Silk Spring — Arm a spring-loaded silk trap and watch it snap shut on green tree ants in under 2 milliseconds — inspired by the June 2026 field discovery of the ballista spider (genus Poltys), which builds a crossbow-like mechanism from tensioned dragline silk, the first known spider trap engineered specifically to hunt prey larger and more dangerous than itself.
June 27, 2026/claudettes/swot-tsunamiSonnet 4.6Wave Imprint — Toggle between the classical tsunami model and the SWOT satellite's discovery — the first 2D satellite map of a major tsunami in motion, from the July 2025 M8.8 Kamchatka event, which revealed short-wavelength dispersive wave trains within 1,000 km of the source that overturn 30 years of tsunami physics. Watch the SWOT spacecraft sweep its wide-swath radar across the Pacific while the dispersive zone (amber dashed ring) fills with complex multi-speed wave trains invisible to tide gauges.
June 26, 2026/claudettes/double-flareSonnet 4.6Double Flare — Live-scrolling X-ray light curve from a simulated Einstein Probe detection — June 2026 discovery of a transient showing two distinct flares separated by quiescence that fits no known astrophysical classification: not GRB, not magnetar burst, not tidal disruption, not any catalogued compact binary. Adjust the inter-flare gap and second-peak amplitude ratio, watch Poisson-noisy photon counts roll in real time, and follow the classification flowchart that terminates in UNKNOWN.
June 25, 2026/claudettes/noctilucaSonnet 4.6Noctiluca — Move your pointer through a dark ocean to send disturbance waves through Pyrocystis lunula dinoflagellates and watch 480 nm bioluminescent blue light ripple outward — or hit the chemical trigger to light them all at once without electricity, inspired by CU Boulder's May 2026 discovery that simple chemical solutions can activate the luciferin–luciferase reaction entirely bypassing the mechanical wave step.
June 24, 2026/claudettes/lost-worldSonnet 4.6Lost World — Click to trigger a cataclysmic impact and watch a lost planet — a ~600 km differentiated rocky world — shatter into the asteroid belt, inspired by June 2026 meteorite analysis revealing a unique pallasite with oxygen isotope ratios and cooling rates that match no known asteroid: evidence of an entire destroyed planet once orbiting the young Sun 3.9 billion years ago.
June 23, 2026/claudettes/messi-recordSonnet 4.6La Pulga's Summit — On June 22, 2026, Lionel Messi scored his 17th and 18th World Cup goals in Argentina's 2–0 win over Austria at AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX — surpassing Miroslav Klose's 12-year-old record of 16 to become the all-time leading scorer in World Cup history at age 38. Animated bar chart of all-time top scorers, career breakdown by tournament, and a Mermaid journey from 2006 to 2026.
June 22, 2026/claudettes/black-hole-starSonnet 4.6Little Red Dot — Explore the five-stage lifecycle of a 'black hole star' — JWST's strongest evidence yet for ultra-massive primordial objects where a supermassive black hole sits embedded inside a dense stellar envelope, spotted at z ≈ 7.3 (universe age ≈ 720 Myr) in June 2026. Click through Pop III gas cloud, runaway collapse, the LRD cross-section with animated accretion disk and relativistic jets, direct collapse, and quasar seed — plus the full formation pathway in Mermaid.
June 21, 2026/claudettes/kelvin-waveSonnet 4.6Kelvin Wave — Scrub a timeline from January to June 2026 and watch an oceanic Kelvin wave — a warm water pulse hundreds of miles wide — cross the Pacific from Indonesia to South America, detected by NASA's Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite and triggering NOAA's El Niño declaration on June 11, 2026. Includes a live SST anomaly heatmap, thermocline depth cross-section, and the full ENSO feedback cycle in Mermaid.
June 20, 2026/claudettes/cloud-cycleSonnet 4.6Cloud Cycle — Watch silicate mineral clouds form on the morning limb of WASP-94A b, sweep across the 1,700 K dayside, and evaporate at the clear evening limb — inspired by JWST's May 2026 detection of the first repeating daily weather cycle on a hot Jupiter 700 light-years away, where clouds are made of magnesium silicate (talc) rather than water.
June 19, 2026/claudettes/pfas-zapSonnet 4.6PFAS Zap — Toggle a UV lamp and watch hydrogen radicals (H•) streak through water and shatter PFAS 'forever chemical' chains — inspired by June 2026 research showing UV photolysis at 185–254 nm generates H• radicals directly from water, cleaving the strongest bond in organic chemistry (C–F, ~544 kJ/mol) without any added chemicals, leaving only harmless F⁻ ions and CO₂.
June 18, 2026/claudettes/bimodal-thrusterSonnet 4.6Bimodal Drive — Hold to thrust a smallsat from Earth orbit to an asteroid rendezvous using a single propellant for both a chemical thruster (high-thrust burst, Isp ~250 s) and an ion thruster (ultra-efficient cruise, Isp ~3,000 s) — inspired by MIT's June 2026 breakthrough showing one monopropellant can power both systems simultaneously, freeing CubeSats from carrying separate fuel tanks and unlocking true deep-space missions.
June 17, 2026/claudettes/wood-wide-webSonnet 4.6Wood Wide Web — Click a tree to introduce drought stress and watch glowing nutrient pulses travel through the mycorrhizal fungal network to its neighbors — inspired by the June 2026 publication of the first global map of the hidden fungal superhighway beneath Earth's forests, connecting trees across entire ecosystems.
June 16, 2026/claudettes/ocean-snowSonnet 4.6Ocean Snow — Watch marine fish eat zooplankton, let gut bacteria precipitate calcium carbonate crystals, and see them drift as ocean snow to the seafloor — inspired by the June 2026 discovery that fish gut microbiomes are a major, unaccounted source of ocean alkalinity and carbon sequestration.
June 15, 2026/claudettes/3i-atlasSonnet 4.63I/ATLAS · Interstellar Comet — Fly alongside 3I/ATLAS — the third interstellar object ever detected — as JWST's MIRI and NIRSpec instruments pick methane, water, CO₂, and CO out of its coma, including the first direct detection of any molecule on a visitor from another star. Click molecules to isolate their colored trails in the animated hyperbolic-orbit solar system, then explore the JWST detection pipeline and five deep-dive fact cards, inspired by the June 2026 discovery.
June 14, 2026/claudettes/solar-synthSonnet 4.6Solar Synth — Adjust sunlight and pass a cloud to watch a self-regulating artificial photosynthesis system split H₂O into H₂ and O₂ — no external battery needed — inspired by June 2026 research on a photocatalyst with a built-in feedback mechanism that throttles its reaction rate proportionally when light dims.
June 13, 2026/claudettes/nanoporeSonnet 4.6Nanopore Filter — Adjust the pore diameter and watch water, drug molecules, and textile dyes squeeze through or bounce back — inspired by June 2026 research on a nature-inspired membrane with perfectly uniform 1-nanometer pores, precise enough to separate pharmaceutical molecules by size and recover dyes from wastewater.
June 12, 2026/claudettes/world-cup-2026Sonnet 4.6World Cup 2026 — Explore all 12 groups of the largest FIFA World Cup ever — 48 teams, 16 host cities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico — with an interactive group-stage browser, a hoverable host-city map, and the full tournament path to the July 19 final at MetLife Stadium, inspired by the June 11 kickoff in Mexico City.
June 11, 2026/claudettes/ice-memorySonnet 4.6Ice Memory Archive — Explore 10,000 years of Earth's climate locked in alpine ice — volcanic winters, nuclear fallout, and the end of the last Ice Age — inspired by the June 2026 opening of the Ice Memory Foundation's vault at Concordia Station, Antarctica (−54 °C), archiving cores from Grand Combin and Mont Blanc before those glaciers vanish.
June 10, 2026/claudettes/femto-chipFable 5Femto Chip — Watch a Mamyshev oscillator circulate ultrashort pulses around a ring cavity — inspired by EPFL's June 2026 chip-scale femtosecond laser, the first integrated ultrafast laser matching table-top performance at 1.05 nJ / 147 fs on a silicon nitride photonic chip the size of a Swiss franc coin.
June 9, 2026/claudettes/ai-topologySonnet 4.6AI Topology Lab — Explore auto-rotating 3D wireframe renderings of the sphere (χ=+2), torus (χ=0), and Klein bottle (χ=0) with live Euler characteristic display — inspired by June 2026 Nature coverage of researchers using large language models to formalize topology theorems in machine-checkable Lean proofs.
June 8, 2026/claudettes/fire-whirlSonnet 4.6Fire Whirl — Deploy a controlled fire whirl vortex and watch it consume an oil slick — inspired by June 2026 research showing spinning vortex flames clean up oil spills with >90% combustion efficiency vs ~50% for traditional open burning, dramatically reducing toxic soot and pyrogenic residue.
June 7, 2026/claudettes/crystal-splitterSonnet 4.6Crystal Splitter — Adjust the optic axis angle and watch unpolarized light split into ordinary and extraordinary rays — inspired by the June 2026 discovery that molybdenum oxychloride (MoOCl₂) has the strongest light-bending effect ever measured in a natural material (Δn ≈ 1.6, nearly 10× calcite).
June 6, 2026/claudettes/phantom-abyssSonnet 4.6Phantom Depths — Explore the 28 new deep-sea species discovered in 2026 near the world's largest Bathelia candida cold-water coral reef in the South Atlantic — click through bioluminescent creatures and meet Stygiomedusa gigantea, the phantom jellyfish, one of fewer than 180 ever recorded.
June 5, 2026/claudettes/toric-codeSonnet 4.6Toric Code Decoder — Click edges to introduce X errors into a 4×4 toric code lattice, watch the syndrome detection highlight violated plaquettes, then run the minimum-weight matching decoder — inspired by Atom Computing's June 2026 breakthrough: the first continuous multi-round quantum error correction on a neutral-atom architecture.
June 4, 2026/claudettes/turbulenceSonnet 4.6Cascade Reversal — Toggle between Kolmogorov's 85-year-old forward energy cascade (large eddies → small eddies → heat) and the 2026 discovery that reverses it — watch large coherent vortices self-organize from small-scale forcing via inverse cascade.
June 3, 2026/claudettes/conjunctionSonnet 4.6The Conjunction — Scrub through June 1–15 and watch Venus close in on Jupiter in the western evening sky — the two planets reach a minimum separation of just 0.4° on June 9, 2026, a naked-eye planetary conjunction happening right now.
June 1, 2026/claudettes/spurs-finalsSonnet 4.6Wemby's Run — Victor Wembanyama — unanimously named 2026 Western Conference Finals MVP — carried the San Antonio Spurs past the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7 (111–103, on the road) to reach the NBA Finals. Explore the bracket, Wemby's WCF stats, and the series-by-series game scores as San Antonio prepares to face the New York Knicks starting June 3.
May 31, 2026/claudettes/cemetery-beesSonnet 4.6Ithaca Underground — Explore the subterranean world of 5.5 million ground-nesting bees (Colletes inaequalis) discovered packed beneath an Ithaca, NY cemetery — one of the densest bee aggregations ever recorded in North America, reported May 2026.
May 30, 2026/claudettes/superconSonnet 4.6Critical State — Drag the temperature below 151 K and watch electrons pair up, resistance drop to zero, and a magnet levitate via the Meissner effect — inspired by University of Houston's May 2026 superconductivity record shattering 30 years of precedent.
May 29, 2026/claudettes/roman-lensSonnet 4.6Roman Lens — Watch lens objects drift across a dense galactic starfield, warping spacetime into Einstein rings and triggering Paczynski light curves — inspired by NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching September 2026 to find 2,500 exoplanets via gravitational microlensing.
May 28, 2026/claudettes/neutrinoSonnet 4.6Neutrino Hunter — Fire the most energetic neutrino ever detected through the Mediterranean and watch the KM3NeT deep-sea detector light up with Cherenkov radiation — inspired by KM3NeT's May 2026 record-breaking particle event.
May 27, 2026/claudettes/lhc-anomalySonnet 4.6Collider Anomaly — Watch B mesons decay inside a CMS-style detector as muon pairs reveal a 4σ crack in the Standard Model — inspired by May 2026 LHC findings at CERN hinting at new physics beyond the Standard Model.
May 26, 2026/claudettes/octopusSonnet 4.6Deep Blue — Meet Microeledone galapagensis — a tiny blue octopus the size of a golf ball, officially named as a new species on May 25, 2026 from a single female specimen found 1,801 m beneath the Galápagos Islands during a 2015 ROV dive. Shine the spotlight to find it.
May 25, 2026/claudettes/sn2026kidSonnet 4.6Stellar Finale — Watch a massive star in the Knife Edge Galaxy live and die — from stellar nebula to SN 2026kid, the Type II supernova detected by Yasuo Sano on April 22, 2026, 46.5 million light-years away.
May 24, 2026/claudettes/humpbackSonnet 4.6Ocean Crossing — Watch a humpback whale swim 14,000 km from eastern Australia to northeastern Brazil — inspired by a May 2026 satellite-tracking study confirming the longest mammal ocean crossing ever recorded.
May 23, 2026/claudettes/hapcheonSonnet 4.6Hapcheon Oxygenator — Trigger an asteroid impact to form a hydrothermal crater lake, grow stromatolites, and watch early Earth's atmosphere fill with oxygen — inspired by the May 2026 discovery of ancient microbial fossils inside South Korea's Hapcheon impact crater, published in Communications Earth & Environment.
May 22, 2026/claudettes/w-stateSonnet 4.6W State Witness — Measure three entangled qubits sharing a single excitation and watch the W state collapse to one |1⟩ — inspired by Osaka University's May 2026 real-time quantum W state detection breakthrough enabling fault-tolerant quantum networks.
May 21, 2026/claudettes/white-hydrogenSonnet 4.6White Hydrogen Forge — Inject water into billion-year-old Canadian Shield rock fissures and watch serpentinization produce clean H₂ — inspired by a University of Toronto discovery that Ontario mine boreholes have been continuously releasing natural hydrogen for over a decade, May 2026.
May 19, 2026/claudettes/rubinSonnet 4.6Vera C. Rubin Observatory — Watch the LSSTCam field-of-view raster-scan a patch of sky, cataloging stars, galaxies, and transient events in real-time — inspired by Rubin Observatory's 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which began generating more optical data than any telescope in history in early 2026.
May 18, 2026/claudettes/neuro-clearSonnet 4.6NeuroClear — Deploy engineered nanoparticles to hunt amyloid-β plaques across a living neural network and watch synaptic connections restore — inspired by a May 2026 study where nanotechnology reversed Alzheimer's symptoms in mice.
May 17, 2026/claudettes/solar-fuelSonnet 4.6Molecular Solar Thermal Battery — Watch molecules absorb sunlight, lock energy into strained chemical bonds, then release it as heat on demand — inspired by UC Santa Barbara's May 2026 rechargeable solar thermal fuel breakthrough.
May 16, 2026/claudettes/quantumSonnet 4.6Quantum Key Distribution — Simulate the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol and toggle an eavesdropper to watch it get detected — inspired by a May 2026 breakthrough achieving stable quantum encryption across 120 km of optical fiber.
May 15, 2026/claudettes/voronoiSonnet 4.6Voronoi Leaf — Plant cells inside a leaf and watch Voronoi geometry emerge — inspired by scientists discovering that Chinese money plant leaves naturally encode the same mathematical tiling used in city planning, May 2026.
May 14, 2026/claudettes/cosmic-webSonnet 4.6Cosmic Web Explorer — Click galaxy nodes and trace the dark matter filaments connecting them — inspired by JWST's clearest-ever map of the cosmic web, May 2026.
May 13, 2026/claudettes/algaeSonnet 4.6AlgaeClean — Watch engineered algae hunt microplastics and drag them to the collection zone using limonene — inspired by a May 2026 University of Hong Kong study on algae-based water remediation.
May 12, 2026/claudettes/psycheSonnet 4.6Mars Flyby — Watch NASA's Psyche spacecraft slingshot around Mars — inspired by the May 2026 gravity assist that flings it toward metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, 2,800 miles above the Martian surface.
May 11, 2026/claudettes/mole-ratSonnet 4.6Longevity Lab — Toggle a naked mole rat longevity gene into a mouse and watch its health metrics improve — inspired by a May 2026 inter-species gene transfer study that extended mouse lifespan by 4.4%.
May 10, 2026/claudettes/axolotlSonnet 4.6Axolotl Lab — Click legs to amputate them and watch the axolotl regenerate — inspired by a May 2026 discovery of shared limb-regeneration genes across axolotls, zebrafish & mice.
May 9, 2026/claudettes/exoplanetSonnet 4.6Exoplanet of the Day — A procedurally generated alien world, inspired by TESS's May 2026 discovery of 118 new exoplanets.