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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Berli C, Schwaninger P, Scholz U et al. · 2025 · British journal of health psychology
Objective Digital technologies offer promising opportunities for smoking cessation interventions. Understanding whether interventions target key determinants of behaviour change is crucial for effective intervention development. This study…
Manzke L, O'Sullivan K, Tiefenbeck V · 2025 · Appetite
Food choices profoundly impact population health and the environment. Related research often relies on self-reported data, which is prone to biases, compromising the accuracy and validity of conclusions about consumer behavior. There are…
Ranucci R · 2025 · Health care management review
Background In delivering health care, hospitals contribute to climate change, which adversely impacts human health. Given this paradox, there are mounting efforts to encourage environmental sustainability in hospitals. Purpose With growing…
He W, Slavik N, Braun J et al. · 2024 · American journal of physiology. Renal physiology
The impact of bladder filling rate on cystometric outcomes remains unclear. Clinically, faster bladder filling is believed to increase the likelihood of observing detrusor overactivity (DO) in those with bladder dysfunction, although…
Moïn-Darbari K, Paromov D, Bacon BA et al. · 2025 · Neuroreport
From a vestibular perspective, it is remarkable that dancers are often performing challenging tasks such as pirouettes, and yet manage to do so without falling. Some have suggested that dancers' resistance to vertigo may be explained by a…
Hossain M, Poot P, Veneklaas E · 2025 · Preprint
Summary It is often stated that trees experiencing climate change may be more vulnerable to damaging effects of pest and disease, but experimental tests are still rare. In this study, we examined the separate and combined impact of…
Sarkar IN · 2026 · AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
Reliable drug-indication knowledge is essential for clinical decision support and pharmacovigilance, yet manual curation is labor-intensive and difficult to scale. This study evaluated nine natural language processing approaches to extract…
Danwitz L, von Helversen B · 2025 · Cognition
In decision-making scenarios, individuals often face the challenge of balancing between exploring new options and exploiting known ones-a dynamic known as the exploration-exploitation trade-off. In such situations, people frequently have…
Conwell SC, Dahmen SN, Cranford MT et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Replication fork collapse at single-strand DNA breaks (SSBs) poses a serious threat to genome stability. Using Xenopus egg extracts, we show that a replication fork encountering an SSB on either the leading- or lagging-strand template…
Albano LJ, Patterson CM, Kidder EJ et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Projecting how a population will adapt to environmental changes requires a mechanistic understanding of the specific biotic and abiotic factors that impose selection on that population. In white clover ( Trifolium repens ), clines in an…
Saitta V, Rebora M, Piersanti S et al. · 2025 · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.
This study investigates the attachment ability of harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), focusing on the synergic action of opposite legs, the anisotropy of adhesive organs and sexual dimorphism.…
Chalifoux M, Avdeeva M, Posfai E · 2025 · Preprint
During the first cell fate decision in mammalian embryos the inner cell mass cells, which will give rise to the embryo proper and other extraembryonic tissues, segregate from the trophectoderm cells, the precursors of the placenta. Cell…
Felton PJ, Shine KJ, Yeadon MR et al. · 2025 · Journal of sports sciences
Research on strength in cricket fast bowling has focused on ball release speed over technique. This study investigates how increased strength affects performance and front foot contact-phase technique during fast bowling. A planar,…
Pousty D, Betzalel Y, Mamane H · 2025 · AWWA Water Science
This study examined the impact of UV‐LED fluence rate (incident irradiance) and wavelengths on the inactivation of MS2 bacteriophage, determined by log reduction value (LRV). Three levels of fluence rates, each differing by an order of…
Chuang Y-C, Behringer MG, Patton GE et al. · 2026 · Applied and environmental microbiology
Cross-feeding is prevalent in microbial communities. Through time, cross-feeding is thought to enrich for loss-of-function mutations, thereby creating or reinforcing dependencies between community members. However, few studies have…
Varkentin E, Brich IR, Sünkel U et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Narrative comprehension, a cognitive skill essential for social participation, relies on a range of abilities, including memory and inference-making. While aging-related cognitive changes are well-documented, research on narrative…
Liang S, Wimmer GE · 2024 · Preprint
Impairments in reward-related behavior are characteristic of major depressive disorder and closely linked with anhedonia. While previous research has suggested a negative relationship between reward-related behavior and symptoms of…
Ma R, Romano E, Perera G et al. · 2025 · General hospital psychiatry
Introduction Chronic pain (CP) is common among people with severe mental illness (SMI). It remains unclear whether patients with comorbid CP and SMI receive equivalent pain management referrals compared to those with CP alone. This…
Chalifoux M, Avdeeva M, Posfai E · 2025 · Developmental biology
During the first cell fate decision in mammalian embryos, the inner cell mass cells, which will give rise to the embryo proper and other extraembryonic tissues, segregate from the trophectoderm cells, the precursors of the placenta. Cell…
Jean A, Murphy H, Sullivan G et al. · 2025 · Anxiety, stress, and coping
Social anxiety is a common experience that ranges from mild, temporary distress to excessive, persistent, and impairing fear. The current study tested whether perfectionism contributes to social anxiety symptoms and post-event processing…
Pennerman KK, Goldman P, Dilla-Ermita CJ et al. · 2025 · Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI
Knowledge of the factors structuring populations of pathogenic fungi is fundamental to disease management efforts and basic biology. However, this crucial information is missing for many important pathogens, including broad-host-range and…
Widom CS, Courtney K · 2025 · Child maltreatment
Previous studies have reported mixed findings regarding the relationship between childhood maltreatment and midlife mortality. To fill gaps in the literature, we examine the impact of childhood maltreatment on midlife mortality and test…
Oliveira JS, Sherrington C, Lord SR et al. · 2025 · The lancet. Healthy longevity
Background Exercises targeting balance and strength are proven to prevent falls. Yoga is growing in popularity and can improve balance and mobility in older adults, but its effects on falls have not been rigorously tested. In this study,…
Huan O, Wang Z · 2026 · Archives of gynecology and obstetrics
Purpose As artificial intelligence (AI) models evolve into their next generations, their application in specialized medical fields requires rigorous validation. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in general medicine,…
Held L, Pannermayr J, Kaufmann A et al. · 2025 · Heliyon
This study investigates the impact of gamification on response inhibition in a Stop-Signal Task (SST) and examines participants' gamification experience. The findings reveal that, after accounting for approach- and avoidance-motivation as…
Spielmann J, Stern C · 2026 · Personality & social psychology bulletin
Do people prefer that artificial intelligence (AI) aligns with gender stereotypes when requesting help to answer a question? We found that people preferred gender stereotypicality (over counterstereotypicality and androgyny) in voice-based…
Li Q, Yu H, Du S et al. · 2025 · The CRISPR journal
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing holds tremendous potential for accelerating genetic improvements in aquaculture. The success of the CRISPR-Cas9 system relies on the specificity and efficiency of engineered single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs). In this…
Khalilzadeh S, Etesami S · 2025 · Galen medical journal
Background The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three decontamination methods on the surface alterations of dental implants and the removal of bacterial plaque from their surfaces. Materials and methods In this…
Miletić S, Stevenson N, Bazin P et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Decision making and learning processes together enable adaptive goal-oriented behaviour. Animal studies demonstrated the importance of subcortical regions in these cognitive processes, but the human subcortical contributions remain poorly…
Jelínek V, Mari L, Petrželková A et al. · 2025 · Preprint
ABSTRACT Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP) has been reported in many altricial avian species, yet its prevalence and underlying behavioural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We studied CBP in the barn swallow ( Hirundo rustica ), a…