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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Palgi S, Bester-Arest T, Faivre N et al. · 2025 · Neuroscience of consciousness
The scope of unconscious integration is widely debated. Here, we examined this question, focusing specifically on deciphering the relations between two associatively related objects, in a set of five behavioral and electrophysiological…
Song Z, Ding M, Zang Q et al. · 2025 · BMC cancer
Background Reproductive factors significantly impact the incidence of breast cancer (BC), a concerning trend. This study aims to reassess this association and provide recommendations for fertility policies to delay the onset of BC. Methods…
Boran E, Stieglitz L, Sarnthein J · 2021 · Frontiers in human neuroscience
Rationale : High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) in intracranial EEG (iEEG) are used to delineate the epileptogenic zone during presurgical diagnostic assessment in patients with epilepsy. HFOs are historically divided into ripples (80-250…
Zheng W, Liu X · 2025 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Metaphorical instructions are widely used in motor skill learning, yet their impact on learning and memory processes in children remains underexplored. This study examined whether metaphor-based language could enhance children's…
Avalos C, Shryane N, Wang Y · 2026 · Nutrients
Objective This study investigates the association between consumers' perceived readability of Multiple Traffic Light (MTL) label print size-a theoretical structural gatekeeper for visual salience-and self-reported food consumption…
Aikawa T, Mori Y, Kuno T et al. · 2026 · JACC. Advances
Background In April 2020, the facility criteria for using rotational atherectomy (RA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were updated in Japan. Board-certified PCI operators are now permitted to perform RA during PCI in…
Lupien SJ, Roy DC, Raymond C et al. · 2020 · Development and psychopathology
Stress associated with caring for a mentally ill spouse can adversely affect the health status of caregivers and their children. Adding to the stress of caregiving is the stigma often placed against spouses and children of people with…
Rostgaard K, Kristjánsson R, Davidsson O et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in epidemiology
Background The probability of presenting with infectious mononucleosis (IM) upon primary Epstein-Barr virus infection increases dramatically at the start of puberty. Aiming to understand why that is, we assessed whether the number of…
Jackson E, Riley T, Overton PG · 2026 · PloS one
Background Although several effective therapies exist for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), current pharmaceutical treatment carries a high risk of misuse and high levels of discontinuation, evidencing a need for…
Kim SJ, Shin SH, Byun SW et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
This study assessed whether resting-state quantitative EEG (qEEG) can differentiate tinnitus laterality under rigorous multiple-comparison control and nested, cross-validated machine learning (ML). We analyzed 210 pre-specified qEEG…
Walasek L, Mullett TL, Stewart N · 2021 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
Walasek and Stewart (2015) demonstrated that loss aversion estimated from fitting accept-reject choice data from a set of 50-50 gambles can be made to disappear or even reverse by manipulating the range of gains and losses experienced in…
Benedetti MH, Lu B, Zhu M · 2024 · Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift
A concern surrounding marijuana legalization is that driving after marijuana use may become more prevalent. Survey data are valuable for estimating policy effects, however their observational nature and unequal sampling probabilities…
Jin T, Gebre ST, Miller CJ et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
Molecular polaritons, formed by coupling molecular electronic or vibrational transitions to photonic modes in microcavities, have gained interest for their potential to influence chemical dynamics. Here, we investigate the effects of…
Oosthuizen MK, Pillay N · 2026 · Developmental psychobiology
Weaning is a stressful stage in the lives of young mammals. Early weaning, in particular, can lead to long-lasting physiological and psychological changes. We investigated the effects of precocial weaning on anxiety, social behavior,…
Denherder S, Neff D, Speck B et al. · 2025 · Developmental psychobiology
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced challenges for keeping participants and research assistants safe during laboratory visits. One solution was administering research assessments in the participant's home via an online platform, despite…
Tang H, Shen L · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Objective As university libraries transform into "Learning Commons," peer collaborative learning has become increasingly common. However, the complexity of its effectiveness and its underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. This study…
Berks JW, Williams MN · 2026 · Europe's journal of psychology
According to creative writing experts, adding conflict to dialogue improves story quality and audience reaction to that story. This idea draws from the widely held theory that conflict is vital for dramatic stories. Yet despite conflict's…
Hu G, Woodman GF · 2024 · Visual cognition
Previous research suggests that applying anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) to the medial-frontal cortex can improve how quickly subjects learn to make simple discriminations (i.e., red from blue). Here, we tested the…
Yi K, Zhan Y, Wei A et al. · 2026 · Drug design, development and therapy
Background The optimal analgesia regimen for patients undergoing laparoscopic gastrectomy is still unclear. This study evaluated the efficacy of ultrasound-guided rectus sheath block (RSB) with liposomal bupivacaine in providing sustained…
Radovich E, Karki S, Das S et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Background Understanding implementation fidelity, or adherence to the intervention-as-intended, is essential to interpreting the results of evaluations. In this paper, we propose a longitudinal, explanatory approach to implementation…
Nilsen K, Kivi R, Laine M et al. · 2024 · Scientific reports
Although evidence of recovery in Antarctic stratospheric ozone has been found, evidence of recovery in Arctic ozone is still elusive, even though 25 years have passed since the peak in ozone depleting substances. Here we have used a…
Lee SY, Shin SJ, Lee J et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG), a chronic visual impairment, are at elevated risk of developing depression. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with benefits for mental health, but evidence is limited regarding its impact…
Perez-Arce F, Knapp D, Lobo R et al. · 2026 · Social science & medicine (1982)
Background A growing literature suggests that education positively influences cognitive function in later life. However, the magnitude and consistency of this effect across study designs and populations remain open questions. Methods This…
Rodenhurst N, Messenger K · 2026 · Developmental science
Previous research into children's comprehension of syntactic structures has investigated early awareness of transitive and intransitive structures amongst monolingual children but research into bilingual children's understanding of the…
Robins PL, Gilbert JR, Luber B et al. · 2026 · Human brain mapping
A core function of episodic memory is to distinguish between overlapping experiences by converting similar inputs into distinct, non-overlapping representations, a process termed pattern separation. While anatomical models emphasize the…
Dong Y · 2026 · Brain and language
Drawing on interpreting research and intervention studies, this article proposes that the interplay between attentional control (AC) and language task schemas (TSs) effectively explains how language experience may enhance AC, and…
Hussey I · 2026 · Preprint
The evidential link between Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a matter of on-going debate. Foody et al. (2013) is frequently cited as evidence for ACT’s concept of Self-as-Context and as evidence…
Okilov S, Ulugbek K · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract We identify a fundamental limitation in current state-based stability metrics for dynamical systems: they measure absolute state preservation rather than structural invariance, leading to systematic failure in describing moving…
Sönmez E · 2026 · Preprint
Intuitive judgments feature high subjective confidence despite inability to articulate evidential basis—a dissociation between confidence and accessible justification that challenges existing accounts of rapid decision-making (19,33,39).…
Nenon D, Fuller G, Masselot P et al. · 2026 · Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Background Some research has suggested that ultrafine particles (UFP), with an aerodynamic diameter less than 100 nm, might be the most harmful component of ambient particulate matter air pollution on human health. In the United Kingdom,…