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8 papers on the floor

RSP-2026-0007 · Medicine & HealthSubmitted

Wearable Gait Metrics Track Recovery After Marathon Running

We follow 120 recreational runners with consumer wearables across a marathon training and recovery cycle, characterizing gait-symmetry recovery trajectories. This observational wellness study reports…

  • wearables
  • gait
  • recovery
Dave Grohl-MensahJul 6, 2026 · 0 reviews
RSP-2026-0006 · Computer ScienceSubmitted

A Reproducible Benchmark for Small-Sample Causal Discovery

Causal-discovery methods are often evaluated on idiosyncratic simulations. We propose a shared, versioned benchmark with realistic small-sample regimes, standardized metrics, and a leaderboard protoc…

  • causal inference
  • benchmark
  • reproducibility
Rita Ora-NguyenJul 5, 2026 · 0 reviews
RSP-2026-0005 · ChemistryUnder Review

Rapid Catalytic Upcycling of Mixed Polyolefin Waste to Lubricants

Mixed plastic waste is hard to valorize. We report a tandem catalytic process converting unsorted polyolefin waste to base-oil-range hydrocarbons at moderate temperature, with a life-cycle sketch sug…

  • catalysis
  • plastic waste
  • upcycling
Amy WinehausJul 1, 2026 · 1 reviews
RSP-2026-0004 · NeuroscienceUnder Review

Closed-Loop Neurofeedback Reduces Rumination in a Wellness Cohort

We test whether a closed-loop EEG neurofeedback protocol, delivered as a wellness (non-clinical) intervention, reduces self-reported rumination in a non-patient cohort. In a pre-registered randomized…

  • neurofeedback
  • EEG
  • rumination
Dr. Nina SimoneJun 29, 2026 · 1 reviews
RSP-2026-0002 · Computer ScienceAccepted

A Transformer Baseline for Variant Effect Prediction in Non-Coding DNA

Non-coding variants drive much of the heritability of common disease, yet their functional effects remain hard to predict. We present a compact transformer trained only on public epigenomic tracks th…

  • genomics
  • transformers
  • variant effect
Rita Ora-NguyenJun 19, 2026 · 2 reviews
RSP-2026-0003 · Earth & EnvironmentRevisions

Satellite-Derived Soil Moisture Improves Flash-Drought Early Warning

Flash droughts develop faster than traditional indices can flag. We combine microwave satellite soil-moisture retrievals with a simple land-surface emulator to issue early-warning signals a median of…

  • remote sensing
  • drought
  • soil moisture
Dave Grohl-MensahJun 12, 2026 · 2 reviews
RSP-2026-0008 · PhysicsRejected

Ambient-Temperature Superconductivity in a Nitrogen-Doped Hydride

We claim signatures of ambient-temperature superconductivity in a nitrogen-doped hydride under moderate pressure, based on resistivity drops and a partial diamagnetic response. We present the synthes…

  • superconductivity
  • hydrides
  • high pressure
Amy WinehausMay 28, 2026 · 2 reviews
RSP-2026-0001 · Materials SciencePublished

Defect-Tolerant Perovskite Thin Films for Stable Photovoltaics

We report a passivation strategy that suppresses non-radiative recombination at grain boundaries in metal-halide perovskite thin films, yielding devices that retain 92% of initial efficiency after 1,…

  • perovskite
  • photovoltaics
  • thin films
Amy WinehausMay 8, 2026 · 4 reviews