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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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Replication FailureMedicine

What's the Rush? Challenging the Early Surgery Paradigm for Older Adults in Emergency General Surgery.

Rice WM, Shaw AP, Britt RC et al. · 2026 · Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Background Rising patient volumes and an aging population are leading to difficulties in providing timely surgical intervention in emergency general surgery (EGS). With decreased resilience and greater comorbidity burden, we hypothesized…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/xcs.0000000000001749
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Preserved muscle oxidative capacity in COPD patients with hypoxemia treated by long term O<sub>2</sub> therapy.

Adami A, Vitacca M, Casaburi R et al. · 2026 · European journal of applied physiology

PURPOSE: Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is an established treatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosed with hypoxemia at rest or during activity. Chronic hypoxemia is a potential mediator of loss of…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00421-026-06227-4
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Learning asymmetry as a predictor of mood and behavior dynamics: A network analysis.

Kemp LT, Smeets T, Jansen A et al. · 2026 · Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

While studying appetitive and aversive conditioning is common in psychopathology research, studies that measure both types of learning simultaneously are rare. To gain insight into the role of appetitive and aversive learning in the…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2025.102071
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Cattle-induced hotspot impacts on N2O and CH4 fluxes in shortgrass steppe

Del Grosso SJ, Nichols KL, Delgado JA et al. · 2025 · Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems.

Grassland soils managed with livestock grazing can act as sources and sinks for methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O), but, in aggregate, are typically a source of N₂O and a sink for CH₄. Previously, we observed higher N₂O losses from…

Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Understanding intolerance of uncertainty in social anxiety disorder: Associations with symptom severity, functioning, and time course.

Moreau AL, Rappaport BI, Saturday ML et al. · 2026 · Journal of psychiatric research

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is an individual difference dimension reflecting negative cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to uncertainty. IU is an important etiological and maintaining mechanism of internalizing…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2025.12.019
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Neural and vascular cellular adhesion molecules are associated with cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: A longitudinal study.

Varden Gjerde K, Bartz-Johannessen C, Løberg EM et al. · 2026 · Schizophrenia research

Background Schizophrenia patho-etiology may involve endothelial inflammation and blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysregulation with cellular adhesion molecules (CAMs) as important mediators. CAMs are essential for cellular integrity but can show…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2026.01.021
Negative / Null Result Report

Associations between knowledge of multilingual support resources and attitudes towards, and use of, ad hoc interpreters in pharmacies in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Hashimoto C, Yoshino A, Hida S et al. · 2025 · Preprint

Abstract Background With the increasing diversity of nationalities in Japan, the number of foreign patients with limited Japanese language proficiency is growing. While various multilingual support resources have been developed in recent…

View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7097925/v1
Negative / Null Result Report

Individual heterogeneity drives a plant macroparasite’s life history

Spacey OG, Jones OR, Record S et al. · 2025 · Preprint

The population dynamics and life histories of macroparasites are fundamental to examine their impacts on hosts and ecosystems. Still, macroparasite population models often ignore parasite individual heterogeneity and are rarely applied to…

View details →DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.09.653086
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Higher entropy in movements may promote enhanced upper limb motor precision.

Brink KJ, Wiles TM, Stergiou N et al. · 2025 · Human movement science

The Optimal Movement Variability Hypothesis posits that healthy movements exhibit an optimal structure of variability, characterized by fractal patterns, which confer both stability and flexibility in motor control. This optimal,…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2025.103368
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Tumor bearing in untreated breast cancer decreases exercise tolerance without lowering maximal oxygen uptake in rats.

Weber RE, Schulze KM, Kenney NJ et al. · 2025 · American journal of cancer research

Breast cancer patients' maximal O 2 uptake (V̇O 2 max) values average 60-80% of age-predicted values which is often attributed to adjuvant therapy rather than risk factors, comorbidities, or the tumor and associated factors (e.g.,…

View details →DOI: 10.62347/qccz2316
Negative / Null Result Report

Assessment of behavioral flexibility in mice with conditional deletion of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 from Emx1 -lineage neurons

Chang DS, Littlepage-Saunders M, Hochstein MJ et al. · 2023 · Preprint

Convergent lines of evidence from animal models suggest that disrupted metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 (mGlu 2 ) function promotes high levels of drug consumption for a variety of psychoactive drugs including alcohol, opioids, and…

View details →DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.15.558004
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Crude protein oscillation in diets adequate and deficient in metabolizable protein: Effects on nutrient digestibility, nitrogen balance, plasma amino acids, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Erickson MG, Reinhardt LA, Svaren L et al. · 2024 · Journal of dairy science

Reducing dietary CP is a well-established means to improve N use efficiency. Yet, few studies have considered if transient restrictions in dietary CP could reduce the environmental footprint of late-lactation cows. We hypothesized that the…

View details →DOI: 10.3168/jds.2023-24150
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Acute effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on maximal voluntary force, repeated maximal isometric contractions and corticospinal excitability in healthy young adults.

Colomer-Poveda D, Mera-González I, Marcos-Frutos D et al. · 2026 · European journal of applied physiology

PURPOSE: The aim of this triple-blind, placebo-controlled study was to determine the effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) applied over the primary motor cortex (M1) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00421-026-06186-w
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Optimizing tendon-to-bone healing: a comparative study of intratunnel and anatomical repairs in rotator cuff tears.

Agir M, Sahin K, Pulatkan A et al. · 2026 · JSES international

Background Rotator cuff tears are a leading cause of shoulder pain, with high rerupture rates despite advancements in surgical techniques. Tendon-to-bone healing failure is often attributed to insufficient fibrocartilage regeneration at…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jseint.2025.101425
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incidence of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa in Dutch Primary Care.

Meier K, van Hoeken D, Kager CCM et al. · 2025 · The International journal of eating disorders

Objective This study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incidence rates of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) in Dutch primary care by comparing pre-pandemic (2015-2019) and in-pandemic (2020-2022) periods. We…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Investigating the impact of COVID-19 related worries and loneliness on alcohol consumption: an ecological momentary assessment.

Haucke M, Heinz A, Heinzel S et al. · 2025 · European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience

Adverse alcohol consumption is a major public health concern, which might have been further increased by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study we investigated the impact of a lockdown stage on the association between alcohol consumption,…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00406-024-01941-6
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Body composition changes after 6 and 12 months of dietary weight loss: insights from the DIETFITS trial.

Kim SH, Heo JH, Cunanan K et al. · 2026 · Journal of the Endocrine Society

Context While popular weight-loss medications have raised concerns about lean mass loss, the normative effects of nonpharmacologic weight loss on body composition remain unclear. Objective We assessed how the extent of weight loss from…

View details →DOI: 10.1210/jendso/bvag015
Failed Experiment ReportMedicine

Effects of Proprioceptive Attenuation with Noisy Tendon Electrical Stimulation on Adaptation to Beyond-Real Interaction.

Ogawa M, Matsumoto K, Aoyama K et al. · 2025 · IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics

Virtual reality (VR) enables beyond-real interactions (BRI) that transcend physical constraints, offering effective user experiences like extending a hand to grasp distant objects. However, adapting to novel mappings of BRI often reduces…

View details →DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2025.3549562
Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessMedicine

Testing the Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Perception from Dynamic Posed and Spontaneous Expressions.

Cong YQ, Yurdum L, Fischer A et al. · 2025 · Journal of nonverbal behavior

The ingroup advantage refers to the phenomenon of emotions being more accurately recognised when expressors and perceivers share the same cultural background. Though well-documented in studies using posed facial expressions, whether the…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s10919-025-00492-1
Failed Experiment ReportMedicine

Cardiac vagal reactivation at the onset of muscle Metaboreflex activation is not further impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Sabino-Carvalho JL, Guerrero RV, Teixeira AL et al. · 2025 · Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by non-motor symptoms and marked altered sympathetic and parasympathetic activity. However, it is currently unclear if inappropriate autonomic adjustments are…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2025.103311