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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van Timmeren T, Piray P, Goudriaan AE et al. · 2023 · Addictive behaviors
The development of addictive behaviors has been suggested to be related to a transition from goal-directed to habitual decision making. Stress is a factor known to prompt habitual behavior and to increase the risk for addiction and…
Eldesouky L, Gross JJ, English T · 2025 · Scientific reports
The ways people manage their emotions (emotion regulation; ER) have been found to affect their own well-being and the well-being of others. In the present research, we extended prior work by examining whether similarity between people's ER…
Hernandez C, Jensen CD, Duraccio KM · 2025 · Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society
Study objectives This secondary data analysis study was designed to evaluate demographic and socioeconomic characteristics that may increase the magnitude of the impact of experimentally induced shortened sleep on suboptimal eating…
McDonald MJ, Marsh ML, Fears SD et al. · 2025 · Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
Chronic exposure to shortened sleep is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Previous studies show insufficient (e.g., poor or fragmented) sleep impairs cerebrovascular reactivity to metabolic stress and…
Czyżowska-Froemling A, Xu H, Harold K et al. · 2026 · Physiological reports
Age-related loss of innervation in skeletal muscle is a key driver of sarcopenia. We investigated the role of calcium-dependent phospholipase A 2 (cPLA 2 ) in denervation-atrophy. cPLA 2 mediates the release of polyunsaturated fatty acid…
Lancup-Gauthier A, Brassard D, Côté M et al. · 2022 · Current developments in nutrition
Objectives While there is evidence that the early lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic may have had small positive impacts on several populations’ dietary habits, the longer term effects remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to…
Sørensen TT, Rod NH, Nguyen TL et al. · 2023 · European journal of epidemiology
Out-of-home care has been linked to excess mortality across the lifespan. We examined whether this association is modified by the age at first out-of-home care placement and the number of placements. In this population-based cohort study,…
van Timmeren T, Piray P, Goudriaan A et al. · 2022 · Preprint
The development of addictive behaviors has been suggested to be related to a transition from goal-directed to habitual decision making. Stress is a factor known to prompt habitual behavior and to increase the risk for addiction and…
Veregge M, Hirsch CD, Moscou MJ et al. · 2025 · mSystems
Goss's wilt and leaf blight of maize is an economically important disease caused by the Gram-positive bacterium, Clavibacter nebraskensis ( Cn ). Little is known about the ecology and pathogenesis of this bacterium. Here, we used…
Kim MJ, Kim S, Kim J et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Unanticipated postural control measures may better identify mechanisms of ankle sprains in real-life situations. The purpose of this study was to identify directional deficits in reactive postural control during unanticipated horizontal…
Karner A, Lor CS, Zhang M et al. · 2026 · PloS one
Spider phobia is one of the most common specific phobias and can be highly detrimental to one's quality of life. To evaluate the efficacy of treatments, reliable pre- and post-treatment assessments are needed. Behavioral avoidance tests…
Williams I, Phillipou A, Storey E et al. · 2025 · Neurology international
Background/objectives As high-acuity vision is limited to a very small visual angle, examination of a scene requires multiple fixations. Simultanagnosia, a disorder wherein elements of a scene can be perceived correctly but cannot be…
Budde H, Mueller-Alcazar A, Ahrens C et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in physiology
Introduction Physical exercise interventions are associated with neuroendocrine activation and transient changes in salivary testosterone (T) concentrations. Until now, most studies have focused on endurance exercise, but not on…
Kesik DB, Şahintürk-Şentürk S, Yıldırım E · 2026 · Biological psychology
It is essential to examine brain structures and processes involved in retrieval tasks in semantic and episodic memory, two key components of the declarative (explicit) memory system, particularly in terms of regional activity differences…
Eckert L, Bolnick DI, Peichel CL et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Ecological speciation is now regarded as one of the primary processes by which new species are generated. Adaptive divergence in allopatry begins this process, but it is often unclear when and how mechanisms that promote reproductive…
Qureshi N, Pevnick JM, Torbati SS et al. · 2026 · American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Purpose Obtaining accurate medication histories for older adults in the emergency department (ED) is essential but challenging due to operational barriers and incomplete electronic health records (EHRs). We implemented a…
McLean JC, Gogan T, Sivasubramaniam D · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract This study investigated whether cancel culture is driven by the retributive impulse and the role of echo chambers in online platforms. An anonymous online survey was utilised for this single-factor between-subjects study. Retained…
Oyetunji TP, Chan-Golston AM, Ha S et al. · 2026 · Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
Objective Amid rising cannabis use, declining perceived harm, and policy liberalization over the past 15 years, we examined whether the association between cannabis use disorder (CUD) and past-year suicidal ideation among U.S. adults…
Sleightholm S, O'Neill C · 2026 · Psychological reports
Suicide is a pernicious global issue with many serious impacts. Despite females being more likely to attempt suicide, males are around three times more likely to die from suicide, with one contributor being normative alexithymia, a reduced…
Ross A, Logan CN, Thompson JJ et al. · 2026 · Preprint
ABSTRACT The Mnemonic Similarity Task (MST) is highly sensitive to age-related cognitive decline in humans and has been adapted for rodents using 3D objects, where aged animals show deficits in discriminating similar lures. To improve…
Olatunji I, Liu J, Profit J · 2026 · Pediatric research
Background Structural inequities in neonatal care may influence human milk (HM) feeding outcomes. We examined whether allied health service (AHS) availability differs between safety-net (sn) and non-snNICUs and its association with HM use…
Skoblow HF, Tracy EL, Gilligan M · 2026 · The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Objectives The Model of Dynamic Association Between Relationship Functioning and Sleep positions sleep as a fundamentally dyadic and reciprocal process, underscoring the need to study sleep within its relational context and highlighting…
GÜNEY MC, SARIBOĞA Y, GÜNEY S et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract This study aimed to identify the psychological determinants of the preference for vaginal birth after cesarean versus cesarean after vaginal birth and to develop a prognostic nomogram. This cross-sectional study included 400…
Kim SK, Shin JH, Ji YJ et al. · 2026 · Journal of hazardous materials
Estuarine-coastal regimes are critical links between land and the open ocean, yet their role as microplastics (MPs) sinks and the mechanisms governing MP retention remain poorly constrained. We conducted a coupled water-sediment survey in…
Omer AA, Abdelaziz MO, Bashir RE et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Background Diabetes and hypertension constitute a dual public health burden, particularly in low-income countries. While urban-rural disparities in healthcare access are well documented, this study aims to compare the prevalence,…
Commauda S, Maglieri V, Prato-Previde E et al. · 2026 · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
Dogs exhibit sophisticated interspecific communication skills, including the use of visual signals to indicate the location of inaccessible resources, known as showing behaviour. Previous studies have investigated factors such as age and…
Kara D, Bohn A · 2026 · Memory (Hove, England)
The present study investigated whether remembering the distant versus the recent personal past influences self-continuity levels and expected future event characteristics in a sample of immigrants. Seventy-three Turkish immigrants living…
Mądziel M, Campisi T · 2026 · Preprint
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are critical to the EU s decarbonization strategy, yet their real-world climate benefits remain uncertain. This study presents a large-scale analysis of real-world PHEV performance using on-board…
Ivanov S, Fosse S, dos Reis M et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Bayesian inference of divergence times for extant species using molecular data is an unconventional statistical problem: Divergence times and molecular rates are confounded, and only their product, the molecular branch length, is…
Thong S, Hendrikse J, Chong TT- et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Motor and episodic memories are classically conceptualised as distinct memory domains. However, both memory sequences are characterised by order and timing of their elements. Generalisation has been previously documented between these…