There was a story recently on Science Friday about journals beginning to publish results of experiments that did not prove the hypothesis: https://www.sciencefr

There was a story recently on Science Friday about journals beginning to publish results of experiments that did not prove the hypothesis: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/journal-of-trial-error-publishing-negative-results/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/journal-of-trial-erro... They make a good point: By focusing only on positive results in publication, there is little common knowledge of pathways that don’t succeed. Back when I was doing grad studies in math, I remember thinking that this could be a useful thing in that field as well: compiling plausible pathways towards proving theorems that end up to be dead ends. I almost feel like something like this could in its own way spark new discoveries in mathematics.