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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Michael J. Foster, Dana E. Veron · 2010 · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Abstract Three-dimensional cloud field morphology contributes to scene-averaged cloud reflectivity, but climate models do not currently incorporate methods of identifying situations where this contribution is substantial. This work…
Gavin Sim, Janet C Read · 2024 · Interacting with Computers
Abstract This study used eye-tracking glasses to better understand how children explore low-fidelity prototypes in the context of user experience studies and to explore the potential of eye tracking in this context. The main research…
Junjie Du, Jian-Mei Li · 2010 · Heart
Dietary obesity is associated with insulin resistance and cardiovascular oxidative stress. Apocynin has traditionally been regarded as an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase but recently it was reported to be predominately an antioxidant in the…
Matthew H Edney · 2024 · Cartographic Perspectives
The two standard Anglophone historiographies of the history of cartography (Skelton 1972, Harley 1987) situated the field’s origins in the early modern era, or even in the later Middle Ages. Yet “history” and “cartography” are both…
C A Lamb, M Price, M Robinson et al. · 2011 · Gut
Introduction The revised NICE guidance on the use of infliximab and adalimumab for the treatment of Crohn's disease, released in May 2010, has suggested biologics be prescribed as a planned therapy until treatment failure or until…
Brandon Woo, Anushka Laha, Amelia Chen et al. · 2025 · Open Mind
Abstract In classic research, Hamlin et al. (2007) found that infants preferentially reach to agents who help others over agents who hinder others. These early findings provided evidence that infants may engage in social evaluation. There…
Youhao Xiong, Zilong Xie, Sen Xue et al. · 2025 · Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract Ferroelectric polymer‐based electrocaloric (EC) materials are promising for next‐generation solid‐state refrigeration due to their high entropy change, eco‐friendliness, lightweight, and flexibility. The practical application of…
Afroz Salman, Biranthabail Dhanashree, Himani Kotian · 2025 · Scientifica
The aim of this research is to investigate the antimicrobial characteristics of bacterial pigments. Pigments are vibrant metabolites generated by bacteria, offering defence against radiation, sunlight, stress and competing microorganisms.…
Maria Daniela Silva, Graça Pinto, Angela França et al. · 2024 · mSystems
ABSTRACT In nature, bacteria often survive in a stationary state with low metabolic activity. Phages use the metabolic machinery of the host cell to replicate, and, therefore, their efficacy against non-dividing cells is usually limited.…
TIMOTHY P. CANAVAN · 2017 · Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology
Pregnancy failure is defined as a lack of sonographic evidence of current or expected viability. Technologic advances in ultrasound imaging continue to redefine diagnostic criteria of pregnancy failure or success. When evaluating a…
David Marsh · 2023 · The Economists’ Voice
Abstract The autumn 2022 economic upheavals that brought down British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government represented an ultimate extension of a high-risk exercise in British exceptionalism: the June 2016 referendum decision to leave the…
Quoc C. Vuong, Mark Laing, Anjana Prabhu et al. · 2019 · Scientific Reports
Abstract The nature of interactions between the senses is a topic of intense interest in neuroscience, but an unresolved question is how sensory information from hearing and vision are combined when the two senses interact. A problem for…
Joshua Onasanya, Renée A Beach · 2021 · SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
Tumor necrosis factor-α antagonists have become a therapeutic mainstay for various inflammatory diseases including Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Despite their clinical efficacy, these medications have been associated with the rare development…
Juan Botella, Manuel Suero, Juan I. Durán et al. · 2021 · Anales de Psicología
La etiqueta p-hacking (pH) se refiere a un conjunto de prácticas oportunistas destinadas a hacer que sean significativos algunos valores p que deberían ser no significativos. Algunos han argumentado que debemos prevenir y luchar contra el…
Ashraf Wahba, Khaled Abdelaal, Ayman Yehia et al. · 2022 · Medicina
Background and Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep-related respiratory disorder that affects between 5% and 20% of the population. In obstructive sleep apnea, lingual tonsillar hypertrophy (LTH) has been suggested as a…
Rahul Sampath, Nathan W. Cummins, Andrew D. Badley · 2016 · Journal of Cell Death
HIV cure is now the focus of intense research after Timothy Ray Brown (the Berlin patient) set the precedent of being the first and only person cured. A major barrier to achieving this goal on a meaningful scale is an elimination of the…
Helene Hill, Joel Pitt · 2014 · Publications
Repeated failures to replicate reported experimental results could indicate scientific misconduct or simply result from unintended error. Experiments performed by one individual involving tritiated thymidine, published in two papers in…
Ke Li, Hengbing Guo, Fenglong Sun et al. · 2024 · Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery
Purpose This study aims to compare the mid-term radiographic, clinical results and survivorship between distal tibial tuberosity high tibial osteotomy (DTT-HTO) and conventional biplanar medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (cOW-HTO).…
Rory D. Cottrell, Tinghong Zhou, John A. Tarduno · 2024 · Scientific Data
Abstract The absence or presence of a lunar paleomagnetosphere is important because it bears directly on the volatile content of the regolith and exploration targets for Artemis and other missions to the Moon. Recent paleointensity study…
Victor Jayeola, C Parsons, L Gorski et al. · 2019 · FEMS Microbiology Letters
ABSTRACT Several outbreaks of listeriosis have implicated fresh produce but genetic factors required for growth of Listeria monocytogenes on produce remain poorly characterized. Based on the fact that β-lactam antibiotics only kill…
Rif Miles Olsen · 2022 · Minerals
Between 2004 and 2018, NASA’s rover Opportunity found huge numbers of small, hematite-rich spherules (commonly called blueberries) on the Meridiani Planum of Mars. The standard oxide composition distributions of blueberries have remained…
Ronnie LaMastro, Noel Vera-Gonzalez, Kayla Campbell et al. · 2021 · Access Microbiology
Candida albicans infections can be challenging to treat, as current antifungal drugs exhibit poor water solubility and host toxicity. To overcome these issues, new methods of drug delivery are needed. Liposomes have been shown to be an…
Iván Sánchez-Iglesias, Celia Martín-Aguilar · 2023 · Journal of Clinical Medicine
Clinical trials are the backbone of medical scientific research. However, this experimental strategy has some drawbacks. We focused on two issues: (a) The internal validity ensured by clinical trial procedures does not necessarily allow…
Anna Ness, Ali Zarei‐Baygi, Dave Macnevin · 2023 · Opflow
Available, effective methods of virus detection adequately address the risks in treating water for potable reuse.
Nathan Cofnas · 2022 · Academic Questions
Seven years ago, under the leadership of Jonathan Haidt, Heterodox Academy set out to organize a meaningful resistance to the reigning social justice orthodoxy on campus. “Seven years later,” writes Nathan Cofnas, “you can count HxA’s…
Arash Farhadian, Mayce Arreem Issa, Karl Kingsley et al. · 2024 · Pediatric Reports
Recent evidence suggests that an ever-growing number of pediatric patients require invasive treatments such as root canal therapy (RCT) in their permanent dentition, albeit with little information about risk factors such as prior invasive…
Alex Moss, Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas et al. · 2017 · Journal of European Real Estate Research
Purpose The authors in this paper aim to investigate the performance of different portfolios of REITs which specialise by property type compared to the performance of a diversified free-float market capitalisation-weighted benchmark index…
Gavin G. Cotterill, Douglas A. Keinath, Tabitha A. Graves · 2025 · Ecology and Evolution
ABSTRACT Occupancy models have become increasingly popular for species monitoring and assessment, in part, because detection/non‐detection data are readily obtained using a variety of methods. Multispecies occupancy models (MSOMs) can…
Vidhu Anand, Christopher G. Scott, Khaled Ali et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Heart Association
Background Tricuspid valve surgery is recommended for severe isolated tricuspid regurgitation (TR) if symptoms persist despite optimal medical therapy. The definition of optimal therapy for TR is unclear beyond managing underlying…
Vinnycius Nunes de Oliveira, Ricardo Borges Viana, João Victor Rosa de Freitas et al. · 2024 · BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
Abstract This study evaluated the acute effect of the exergame Kinect Sports ® beach volleyball on state anxiety level in adult women. Thirty healthy adult women (age: 21 [4] years, body mass: 54.70 [19.50] kg, height: 1.61 ± 0.05 m, and…