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WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Advances in the intrinsic signaling pathway interactions and clinical translation of HR+/HER2+ breast cancer

Xinyu Li, Tao Huang · 2025 · Breast Cancer

Hormone receptor-positive (HR +) and HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancers represent a biologically unique subset of breast malignancies characterized by the co-expression of estrogen receptors (ER), progesterone receptors (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). These cancers exhibit distinct molecular features, often leading to aggressive growth and higher recurrence rates. HR+/HER2+ breast cancer cells can utilize estrogen and HER2-driven signaling pathways to promote proliferation, survival, and metastatic potential, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for treat

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s12282-025-01779-3Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The TEX44-CPT1B axis regulates mitochondrial sheath assembly and fatty acid oxidation in sperm

Erlei Zhi, Haowei Bai, Chuan Ren et al. · 2025 · Nature Communications

Mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO) is essential for energy production and cellular homeostasis, yet its role in sperm function has remained unclear. Through whole-exome sequencing (WES) of 800 patients with asthenozoospermia, we…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63280-xCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology

Wolfgang Wüster · 2025 · Vertebrate Zoology

The advent of molecular methods has revolutionised the field of species delimitation and description, one of the key tasks of systematic biology. In animal taxonomy, one marker, the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecule, has acquired and retained disproportionate influence. This is despite its uniparental, clonal mode of inheritance, as a result of which the entire molecule acts as a single locus, and that precludes its use as a test for admixture between putative lineages, a key consideration in species delimitation. To establish the extent to which the limitations of mtDNA affect present-day ta

View details →DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e161536Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Integrated physics and magnet design for the ST-E1 fusion power plant

E. Maartensson, N. Welch, M. Scarpari et al. · 2026 · Nuclear Fusion

Abstract ST-E1 is Tokamak Energy’s commercially competitive fusion power plant design featuring a lifetime high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet cage, which has completed its pre-concept design stage. A central challenge at the pre-concept stage is the need to iteratively and consistently integrate the development of the magnet cage, core plasma physics, and power-exhaust systems, while avoiding serial design loops and late discovery of infeasible operating scenarios. Accurate representation of inductive current drive is particularly critical, as it tightly couples magnetic equilibria,

View details →DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ae773bCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessArts and Humanities

What Predicts ( AI ‐Mediated) Informal Digital Learning of English in the Global South? The Case of Rural Bangladeshi Students

Guangxiang Liu, Md Kamal Hossain · 2026 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

ABSTRACT Background Amid Bangladesh's national efforts to enhance digital inclusion, rural university students continue to face persistent infrastructural and educational inequalities that limit their access to quality English learning…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/jcal.70196Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Examining human reliance on artificial intelligence in decision making

Jo Pearson, Itiel E. Dror, Emma Jayes et al. · 2026 · Scientific Reports

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to effectively support human decision making depends on whether humans are willing to trust in, and thus rely on, AI. Understanding human reliance on AI is critical given controversial reports of AI inaccuracy and bias. Furthermore, the erroneous belief that using technology removes biases may lead to overreliance on AI. To examine humans’ reliance on AI, human participants (N = 295, Mage = 33.79) judged the authenticity of 80 faces (40 real, 40 AI-synthesized) presented alongside guidance supposedly from humans or from AI. This guidance was correct only

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-34983-yCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Granulation and stability of microalgal–bacterial granular sludge under single and combined exposure to polycaprolactone microplastics and sulfamethoxazole

Alfonz Kedves, Máté Balogh, Jamsheed Abbas Dar et al. · 2026 · Bioresource Technology

The increasing occurrence of microplastics and antibiotics in wastewater poses emerging challenges for biological treatment processes. Microalgal-bacterial granular sludge (MBGS) has emerged as an efficient algae-based biotechnology for wastewater treatment; however, its response to simultaneous exposure to these contaminants remains largely unexplored. Here, the effects of degradable polycaprolactone microplastics (PCL MPs) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) were evaluated at 1 mg/L during granulation and long-term operation. PCL alone caused only minor changes, whereas SMX impaired granule stability

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance governance across 193 countries to inform the 2026 Global Action Plan update

Weiye Chen, Yige Zeng, Jinxin Zheng et al. · 2026 · Nature Medicine

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major global health threat, yet the effectiveness of national action plans (NAPs) remains uncertain. Here we developed a multidimensional One Health governance index through a structured Delphi expert…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04257-1Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Confounding factors and biases abound when predicting molecular biomarkers from histological images

Muhammad Dawood, Kim Branson, Sabine Tejpar et al. · 2026 · Nature Biomedical Engineering

Deep learning models that infer clinically relevant biomarker status from tissue images are being explored as rapid and low-cost alternatives to molecular testing. Here we show, through statistical analysis across multiple cancer types, datasets and modelling approaches, that the datasets used to train these models contain strong dependencies between biomarkers and clinicopathological features, which prevent models from isolating the effect of a single biomarker and lead them to learn confounded signals. Consequently, their prediction accuracy varies substantially with the status of codependen

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41551-026-01616-8Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Adjuvant pembrolizumab plus belzutifan versus pembrolizumab for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC): The randomized phase 3 LITESPARK-022 study.

Toni K. Choueiri, R Motzer, Jose A. Karam et al. · 2026 · Journal of Clinical Oncology

LBA418 Background: Adjuvant pembrolizumab is a standard of care for patients with ccRCC at increased risk of recurrence following nephrectomy based on the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 study (N Engl J Med 385:683; N Engl J Med 390:1359). Combination…

View details →DOI: 10.1200/jco.2026.44.7_suppl.lba418Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Determinants of Green Energy Penetration in N-11 Countries: A Machine Learning Analysis

Najabat Ali, Md Reza Sultanuzzaman · 2026 · Energies

This study investigates the determinants of green energy penetration in the Next Eleven (N-11) economies over the period 2000–2022, with a particular focus on the roles of foreign direct investment (FDI), green transition, governance quality, industrial growth, and urbanization. The primary objective of the study is to assess how investment flows, structural transformation, and institutional capacity jointly shape the adoption of renewable energy in fast-growing emerging economies. To achieve this goal, the study employs a second-generation panel econometric and machine-learning framework that

View details →DOI: 10.3390/en19020541Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

The Impact of Liquidity and Leverage on the Financial Performance of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-Listed Consumer Goods Firms

Floyd Khoza · 2025 · Journal of risk and financial management

Understanding the role of liquidity and leverage is crucial in assessing financial performance, particularly in the consumer goods sector. This study examined the impact of liquidity and leverage on financial performance, using a sample of 13 consumer goods firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from 2014 to 2024. Despite the present literature on this association, few traceable studies have investigated this phenomenon, and there is a dearth of literature in this sector. The dependent variable for this study was financial performance, and the return on assets (ROA) was employed

View details →DOI: 10.3390/jrfm18090510Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Multi-Agentic LLMs for Personalizing STEM Texts

Michael Vaccaro, Mikayla Friday, Arash E. Zaghi · 2025 · Applied Sciences

Multi-agent large language models promise flexible, modular architectures for delivering personalized educational content. Drawing on a pilot randomized controlled trial with middle school students (n = 23), we introduce a two-agent GPT-4 framework in which a Profiler agent infers learner-specific preferences and a Rewrite agent dynamically adapts science passages via an explicit message-passing protocol. We implement structured system and user prompts as inter-agent communication schemas to enable real-time content adaptation. The results of an ordinal logistic regression analysis hinted that

View details →DOI: 10.3390/app15137579Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

Final Moments. III. Explosion Properties and Progenitor Constraints of CSM-interacting Type II Supernovae

W. V. Jacobson-Galán, Luc Dessart, Kyle W. Davis et al. · 2025 · The Astrophysical Journal

Abstract We present analysis of the plateau and late-time phase properties of a sample of 39 Type II supernovae (SNe II) that show narrow, transient, high-ionization emission lines (i.e., “IIn-like”) in their early-time spectra from interaction with confined, dense circumstellar material (CSM). Originally presented by W. V. Jacobson-Galán et al., this sample also includes multicolor light curves and spectra extending to late-time phases of 35 SNe with no evidence for IIn-like features at <2 days after first light. We measure photospheric phase light-curve properties for the distance-correct

View details →DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adfa23Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Endothelial STING and STAT1 mediate IFN-independent effects of IL-6 in an endotoxemia-induced model of shock

Nina Martino, Erin Sanders, Ramon Bossardi Ramos et al. · 2025 · Journal of Clinical Investigation

Severe systemic inflammatory reactions, including sepsis, often lead to shock, organ failure, and death, in part through an acute release of cytokines that promote vascular dysfunction. However, little is known about the vascular endothelial signaling pathways regulating the transcriptional profile in failing organs. Our work focused on signaling downstream of IL-6, due to its clinical importance as a biomarker for disease severity and predictor of mortality. Here, we show that loss of endothelial expression of the IL-6 pathway inhibitor SOCS3 promoted a type I IFN-like (IFNI-like) gene signat

View details →DOI: 10.1172/jci189570Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Prebunking and credible source corrections increase election credibility: Evidence from the US and Brazil

John M. Carey, Brian J. Fogarty, Marília Gehrke et al. · 2025 · Science Advances

We investigate how to counter misinformation about voter and election fraud using data from the US and Brazil. Our study first compares two types of messages countering claims of widespread fraud: (i) retrospective corrections from…

View details →DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv3758Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

Unraveling the Relaxation Dynamics of Uracil: Insights from Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Davide Faccialà, M. Bonanomi, Bruno Nunes Cabral Tenorio et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Chemical Society

High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide We report a study of the electronic and nuclear relaxation dynamics of the photoexcited RNA base uracil in the gas phase using time-resolved core-level photoelectron spectroscopy together with high-level calculations. The dynamics was investigated by trajectory surface hopping calculations, and the core ionization energies were calculated for geometries sampled from these. The molecule was excited by a UV laser and dynamics probed on the oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon sites by core electron spectroscopy. We find that the main de-excitation chann

View details →DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04874Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Kriging prior regression: A case for kriging-based spatial features with TabPFN in soil mapping

Jonas Schmidinger, Viacheslav Barkov, Sebastian Vogel et al. · 2025 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Machine learning and geostatistics are two fundamentally different frameworks for the prediction and spatial mapping of soil properties. Geostatistics leverages the spatial structure of soil properties, whereas machine learning models capture the relationship between available environmental features and soil properties. We propose a hybrid framework that augments machine learning with spatial context through the engineering of ‘spatial lag’ features derived from ordinary kriging. We call this approach ‘kriging prior regression’ (KpR), as it reverses the logic of regression kriging by incorpera

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2025.111352Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

ComparativeProfiling and Chemogenomics Applicationof Chemical Tools for NR4A Nuclear Receptors

Sabine Willems, Vasily Morozov, Julian A. Marschner et al. · 2025 · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

The ligand-activated transcription factors of the NR4A family are implicated as promising drug targets with neuroprotective and anticancer potential and attract strong attention in drug discovery. Several NR4A modulators have been…

View details →DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00459Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Artificial Intelligence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Endoscopy

Sabrina Gloria Giulia Testoni, Guglielmo Albertini Petroni, Maria Laura Annunziata et al. · 2025 · Diagnostics

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), comprising Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract with still-elusive etiopathogeneses and an increasing prevalence worldwide. Despite the growing availability of more advanced therapies in the last two decades, there are still a number of unmet needs. For example, the achievement of mucosal healing has been widely demonstrated as a prognostic marker for better outcomes and a reduced risk of dysplasia and cancer; however, the accuracy of endoscopy is crucial for bo

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Does baseline severity interact with the effects of psychotherapy for depression? A meta-analytic review

Pim Cuijpers, Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel et al. · 2026 · Journal of Affective Disorders

It is not yet clear whether baseline severity is associated with the effects of psychotherapies. We examined baseline severity at the study level in a large sample of randomized controlled trials comparing psychotherapies against a control condition for the treatment of depression. We used an existing large database of randomized trials comparing psychotherapies for depression with control groups ( www.metapsy.org ). We converted baseline severity scores across different depression measures into a common metric. We ran bivariable and multivariable meta-regression analyses to examine the associ

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Targeted Hyaluronan Degradation Enhanced Tumor Growth Inhibition in Gastrointestinal Cancer Models

Fulai Zhou, Guangmao Mu, Honglei Bi et al. · 2025 · Cancers

Background. The dense hyaluronan (HA)-rich stroma in solid tumors can prevent effective tumor growth inhibition by hindering drug delivery and immune cell infiltration. However, the degradation of HA alone by systemic delivery of hyaluronidase has not shown significant improvement of tumor growth inhibition. Objectives/Methods. In this study, we targeted hyaluronan degradation by using antibody–enzyme (AbEn) molecules by fusing antibodies to a recombinant human hyaluronidase (HYAL). Results. The AbEn molecules were stable, retained both antigen-binding and enzymatic activities, and demonstrate

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Agentic AI Framework to Automate Traditional Farming for Smart Agriculture

Muhammad Murad, Muhammad Ahmed, Nizam ul din et al. · 2026 · AgriEngineering

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows great promise for transforming the agriculture sector and can enable the development of many modern farming practices over conventional methods. Nowadays, AI agents and agentic AI have attained popularity due to their autonomous structure and working mechanism. This research work proposes an agentic AI framework that integrates multiple agents developed for farming land to promote climate-smart agriculture and support United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs). The developed structure has four agents: Agent A for monitoring soil properties, Agen

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Long‐term passive heat acclimation enhances maximal oxygen consumption via haematological and cardiac adaptation in endurance runners

Elliott J. Jenkins, Joseph A. Killick, Owain Zerilli et al. · 2025 · The Journal of Physiology

Abstract Long‐term heat acclimation has been shown to elevate haemoglobin mass (Hb mass ) and enhance maximal oxygen consumption (). To date, however, all evidence derives from exercise‐induced heat stress, making it unclear whether passive strategies, which allow athletes to maintain training intensities, can produce similar adaptations. Moreover, while heat‐induced increases in are often attributed to haematological changes, adaptation of other convective components of oxygen transport may underpin these improvements. To investigate whether 5 weeks of hot‐water immersion (HWI) would enhance

View details →DOI: 10.1113/jp289874Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Orthogonal phase modulation and Lissajous mode decoupling in light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy for real-time multi-component gas sensing

Hanxu Ma, Shunda Qiao, Ying He et al. · 2026 · Reports on Progress in Physics

Abstract This paper proposed an optical detection mechanism that utilized orthogonal phase modulation (OPM) and Lissajous mode decoupling within a light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy (LITES) sensor for the first time, enabling…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy

Lujain Ibrahim, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Luc Rocher · 2026 · Nature

. Here we show how this can create a significant trade-off: optimizing language models for warmth can undermine their performance, especially when users express vulnerability. We conducted controlled experiments on five different language models, training them to produce warmer responses, then evaluating them on consequential tasks. Warm models showed substantially higher error rates (+10 to +30 percentage points) than their original counterparts, promoting conspiracy theories, providing inaccurate factual information and offering incorrect medical advice. They were also significantly more lik

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10410-0Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Predicting unconfined compressive strength of geopolymer-stabilized clays using a sector fruit fly–based extreme learning machine

Mohamed Abdellatief, Mohamed Mortagi · 2026 · Scientific Reports

Accurate prediction of the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of geopolymer-stabilized clayey soil is critical for geotechnical engineering. Conventional regression algorithms and even advanced machine learning approaches such as artificial neural networks often struggle to fully capture the highly non-linear interactions among soil properties and geopolymer mix parameters while maintaining computational efficiency and interpretability on limited datasets. To address these challenges, this investigation proposes a novel hybrid predictive framework based on a sector fruit fly optimization al

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Harnessing Hybrid Niosomes for Improved Oral Bioavailability of an Anticoagulant: Design, Optimization and In-Vivo Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Evaluations

Remonda Raafat Ragheb, Rodayana Atef, Kareem Abdou et al. · 2026 · AAPS PharmSciTech

Abstract Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and pulmonary embolism (PE), remains a major global health burden, necessitating prolonged and reliable anticoagulant therapy. Although Apixaban (APX) is a cornerstone oral anticoagulant for VTE management, its therapeutic performance is limited by poor aqueous solubility and low oral bioavailability. To overcome these challenges, this study introduces a hybrid niosomal delivery system designed to enhance the absorption and systemic persistence of APX. The system was engineered by integrating hybrid of surfactants together with cholesterol to form a stable

View details →DOI: 10.1208/s12249-026-03374-xCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Microbiota-Gut-Kidney Axis and Targeted Therapeutic Strategies in Kidney Diseases

Zhenghao Sun, Qian Gong, Zi-lai Wang et al. · 2026 · International Journal of Biological Sciences

The gut microbiota, as a source of profound genetic and metabolic capacity, affects every aspect of human biology including health, development and aging, as well as disease. Studies have demonstrated the crosstalk between the gut…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Metabolic dysfunction and mitochondrial failure in Alzheimer's disease: integrating pathophysiology, clinical evidence and emerging interventions

Xiaohua Xiao, Xueqin Yan, Chunhua Liang et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in Neurology

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a gradual and irreversible decline in the brain's ability to function which is not only signified by amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles but also by and metabolic and mitochondrial changes that have a negative impact on the classical neuropathological hallmarks. It is becoming increasingly clear that the central roles in the process of synaptic dysfunction, neuronal death and cognitive decline are played by the brain's impaired glucose utilization, insulin resistance, lipid metabolism alterations, and energy homeostasis disruption. Mitochondrial dysfunc

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2026.1772036Cited by 9