A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.
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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James A. Kelhoffer · 2018 · Early Christianity
Eine sprachliche Analyse der stilistischen und theologischen Eigenheiten von 2Clem 19,1–20,5 im Vergleich zu 2Clem 1–18 macht einige Unterschiede deutlich, die für die letzten beiden Kapitel sehr wahrscheinlich auf einen späteren Autor…
Luciano Rodrigo Lopes, João Henrique Campos, Alison Felipe Alencar Chaves · 2022 · Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
In 2002, a severe acute respiratory (SARS) epidemic, caused by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV), affected a significant number of countries and was interrupted after one year, approximately. Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused…
Malik E. Juweid, Dana Alselaibi, Hiba Abandeh et al. · 2023 · Medicine
Trabecular bone score (TBS) assesses trabecular microarchitecture at the lumbar spine and was shown to improve fracture risk prediction compared to bone mineral density (BMD) alone. We investigated whether lumbar degenerative changes (DC)…
Rafael R. Maes, Geert Potters, Erik Fransen et al. · 2023 · Sustainability
Air quality currently poses a major risk for human health. Currently, diesel is widely used as fuel and is a significant source of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM), both hazardous to human health. A good alternative for…
Ferhat Karaman, Jill Lany, Jessica F. Hay · 2024 · Cognitive Science
Abstract Infants are sensitive to statistics in spoken language that aid word‐form segmentation and immediate mapping to referents. However, it is not clear whether this sensitivity influences the formation and retention of word‐referent…
Caetano Souto-Maior · 2025 · PeerJ
Reports of crises of reproducibility have abounded in the scientific and popular press, and are often attributed to questionable research practices, lack of rigor in protocols, or fraud. On the other hand, it is a known fact that—just like…
Scott D. King · 2022 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Abstract While volcanic landforms attest to the numerous and varied volcanic processes on Venus, estimates of the frequency of volcanic eruptions are lacking. Constraints from volcanic resurfacing volumes can be equally satisfied by…
T. M. Esman, J. R. Espley, J. R. Gruesbeck et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Schumann resonances are electromagnetic resonances generally associated with lightning. If they exist on Mars, Schumann resonances are expected to resonate within the ionospheric cavity at a fundamental frequency of 7–14 Hz. We conducted a…
Stefano Mammola, Diego Fontaneto, Andrea Santangeli et al. · 2026 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Abstract We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation, the speaker suddenly cracks a joke. The room erupts. Shoulders relax. Minds…
Sangeeta Saha, Binod Chandra Tripathy · 2022 · Journal of Uncertain Systems
The main aim of this paper is to introduce several forms of statistical convergence of difference sequences of complex uncertain variables: [Formula: see text]-statistically convergence almost surely, [Formula: see text]-statistically…
Malene Kyrkjebø Vinnes, Inger Marie Aalberg Haugen, Ola Diserud et al. · 2022 · Ecological Entomology
Abstract Linden trees ( Tilia spp . ) have for a long time been associated with bumblebee ( Bombus spp . ) mortality in Europe and North America. Several explanations have been suggested for this phenomenon. This study aimed to explore to…
Raphael Max, Matthias Uhl · 2023 · PLOS ONE
Moral luck refers to whether an actor is morally praised or blamed for an action whose outcome they could not influence. In two studies, we investigated the behavioral importance of this phenomenon in the realm of investments, which has…
Olesia Lebid, Oleksandr Veits · 2020 · Banks and Bank Systems
The paper focuses on the theoretical justification and theoretical foundations of using statistical criteria for identifying money laundering risk as a tool to prevent and counteract the legalization of bank clients’ proceeds. The…
Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Andler · 2018 · Emotion Review
Our approach to emotion emphasized three key ingredients. (a) We do not yet have a mature science of emotion, or even a consensus view—in this respect we are more hesitant than Sander, Grandjean, and Scherer (henceforth “SGS”) or Luiz…
Penny J. Regier, Mark J. Fealey, Stanley E. Kim et al. · 2020 · American Journal of Veterinary Research
Abstract OBJECTIVE To compare initial leak pressure (ILP) between cadaveric canine and synthetic small intestinal segments that did and did not undergo enterotomy. SAMPLE Eight 8-cm grossly normal jejunal segments from 1 canine cadaver and…
Spartaco Gippoliti · 2016 · Mammalia
Abstract It has recently been claimed by Masseti that a wild goat survived on Montecristo Island until the first half of the 20th century and that subsequent selection procedures produced a goat that did not resemble any true wild goat. In…
Trygve Tveiterås Mongstad, Hanne Flåten Andersen, Jan Petter Maehlen et al. · 2016 · ECS Transactions
In this paper we demonstrate production of doped silicon nanoparticles and testing of the material in Li-ion battery half cells. Incorporation of 3 at% of phosphorous in the reactants of the free-space reactor used resulted in a doping…
Chelsea Connair Clifford, Emily R. Waring, Carl H. Pederson et al. · 2023 · Journal of the ASABE
Highlights Corn yields increased from 1989 to 2021 in Iowa experimental plots at nitrogen fertilizer rates consistently just above current recommendations. Increased corn yields did not result in a decrease in drainage nitrate exports.…
Ekaete Efretuei · 2025 · FINANCIAL REPORTING
Purpose: I examine whether sales manipulation in failed firms that adopted the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) differ from that of failed firms that did not. This inquiry is motivated by a paucity of research on the…
Michelle A. Nakatsuka, Yong Kim, Themistocles Protopsaltis et al. · 2025 · Clinical Spine Surgery
Study Design: Retrospective analysis of retrospectively collected data. Objective: To determine the effects of preoperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use on estimated blood loss (EBL) and postoperative drain output in…
Ernie Balcerak · 2013 · Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Extreme rainfall can have serious effects on societies and ecosystems. Increases in extreme precipitation events are predicted to occur as Earth's climate warms, in part because warmer air has greater capacity to hold moisture, leading to…
Andrey Koval · 2019 · Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika
Numerical simulation has been used to examine the effect of changes in solar activity (SA) in the thermosphere on amplitudes of long-period planetary waves (PW) for the winter period in the Northern Hemisphere. The model of the middle and…
Xuexi Yang, Min Deng, Yan Shi et al. · 2020 · Transactions in GIS
Abstract An anomalous geographical region refers to a collection of spatially aggregated objects whose non‐spatial attribute values are significantly inconsistent with those of their spatial neighbors. The detection of anomalous regions…
Alfonso T. García-Sosa · 2021 · Molecules
Substances that can modify the androgen receptor pathway in humans and animals are entering the environment and food chain with the proven ability to disrupt hormonal systems and leading to toxicity and adverse effects on reproduction,…
M.P. Bazilevskiy · 2025 · Numerical Methods and Programming (Vychislitel'nye Metody i Programmirovanie)
The article is devoted to the urgent problem of constructing interpretable machine learning models, namely, multiple linear regression models. To estimate their unknown parameters, ordinary least squares is used. A…
Daniel Vladimirov · 2025 · Strategies for Policy in Science and Education-Strategii na Obrazovatelnata i Nauchnata Politika
From December 2016 to December 2018, a comprehensive study was conducted to analyze the results of an advanced orienteering training and training program introduced. A comparative analysis was also used in the analysis of the research…
M Chudzik, E Oszczygiel, D Miskowiec et al. · 2021 · EP Europace
Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Despite the fact that most people with COVID-19 (C-19) do not require hospitalization, little is known about the changes in ECG in this group of patients (pts). The…
Olufemi Adebari Oloyede, Mustafa Adelaja Lamina · 2022 · Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences
Background: The study aims to establish the pattern of fetal heart rates in the first and second trimesters and determine whether there is a statistically significant difference in the first-trimester fetal heart rate (FHR) of males and…
Javier González-Delgado, Pablo Mier, Pau Bernadó et al. · 2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The correlation between synonymous codon usage and secondary structure in translated proteins has been widely demonstrated. This usage plays a capital role in tuning translational rates and protein folding kinetics, indirectly influencing…
Alasdair Richardson · 2021 · History Education Research Journal
Among the growing body of literature concerning teaching and learning about the Holocaust, very little research has explored the experiences of teachers from an emotional perspective. This study considers the emotion work done by educators…