Negative / Null Result Report2019
Scale-free networks are rare.
CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)
Failure-mode index
Negative results in Physics and Astronomy
83 indexed negative results, null findings, and replication failures in Physics and Astronomy. Each entry is a real published study whose primary finding was negative — learn what already failed before you repeat it.
Most-cited failures in Physics and Astronomy
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Scale-free networks are rare
Nature Communications
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Dark Matter Search Results from the CDMS II Experiment
Science
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Detection of a gamma-ray source in the Galactic Center consistent with extended emission from dark matter annihilation and concentrated astrophysical emission
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Transient Water Vapor at Europa’s South Pole
Science
Negative / Null Result Report2018
The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing Constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2012
GeV OBSERVATIONS OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES WITH THEFERMILARGE AREA TELESCOPE
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2024
The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background
Figshare
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Automatic treatment planning based on three‐dimensional dose distribution predicted from deep learning technique
Medical Physics
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Higher Moments of Net Proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Kinematics in Young Star Clusters and Associations with Gaia DR2
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2021
The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way II. The catalogue of basic parameters
arXiv (Cornell University)
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Observing the shadow of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion black hole
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Spin diffusion from an inhomogeneous quench in an integrable system
Nature Communications
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Search for a New Gauge Boson in Electron-Nucleus Fixed-Target Scattering by the APEX Experiment
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2018
An ALMA [C ii] Survey of 27 Quasars at z > 5.94
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2021
The Hipparcos–Gaia Catalog of Accelerations: Gaia EDR3 Edition
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Negative / Null Result Report2015
SPITZERSECONDARY ECLIPSES OF THE DENSE, MODESTLY-IRRADIATED, GIANT EXOPLANET HAT-P-$20{\rm b}$ USING PIXEL-LEVEL DECORRELATION
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2015
First results from the DarkSide-50 dark matter experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Physics Letters B
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Radiation reaction effects on radiation pressure acceleration
New Journal of Physics
Negative / Null Result Report2021
Has NANOGrav Found First Evidence for Cosmic Strings?
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Search for Spectral Irregularities due to Photon–Axionlike-Particle Oscillations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Axions from strings: the attractive solution
Journal of High Energy Physics
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): improved cosmic growth measurements using multiple tracers of large-scale structure
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Negative / Null Result Report2014
STAR FORMATION AT 4 < z < 6 FROM THE SPITZER LARGE AREA SURVEY WITH HYPER-SUPRIME-CAM (SPLASH)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Search for axionlike dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Scalable detection of statistically significant communities and hierarchies, using message passing for modularity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Observation of ice-like water layers at an aqueous protein surface
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Emergence of a field-driven U(1) spin liquid in the Kitaev honeycomb model
Nature Communications
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Search for Axionlike Dark Matter through Nuclear Spin Precession in Electric and Magnetic Fields
Physical Review X
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Electrical Detection of the Spin Polarization Due to Charge Flow in the Surface State of the Topological Insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3
Nano Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2022
Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Trigonometric parallaxes of star-forming regions in the Sagittarius spiral arm
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Direct Test of Laser Tunneling with Electron Momentum Imaging
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2019
All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Failed Experiment Report2021
Absence of local moments in the kagome metal KV 3 Sb 5 as determined by muon spin spectroscopy
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Union through UNITY: Cosmology with 2000 SNe Using a Unified Bayesian Framework
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2012
SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DURING LIGO SCIENCE RUN 6 AND VIRGO SCIENCE RUNS 2 AND 3
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Limit on the production of a new vector boson in e + e − → Uγ, U → π + π − with the KLOE experiment
Physics Letters B
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Light Scalar Dark Matter
Physical Review Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2014
CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROGENITOR SYSTEM OF THE TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA 2014J FROM PRE-EXPLOSIONHUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPEIMAGING
The Astrophysical Journal
Replication Failure2025
Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Negative / Null Result Report2021
What's in Your Tweets? I Know Who You Supported in the UK 2010 General Election
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Three dimensional simulations of plasma filaments in the scrape off layer: A comparison with models of reduced dimensionality
Physics of Plasmas
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Deep convolutional neural networks as strong gravitational lens detectors
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Experimental search for hidden photon CDM in the eV mass range with a dish antenna
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Negative / Null Result Report2019
A statistically significant lack of debris discs in medium separation binary systems
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Deep Rest-UV JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of Early Galaxies: The Demographics of C iv and N-emitters in the Reionization Era
The Astrophysical Journal
Failed Experiment Report2014
A versatile phenomenological model for the S-shaped temperature dependence of photoluminescence energy for an accurate determination of the exciton localization energy in bulk and quantum well structures
Journal of Physics D Applied Physics