In laboratories around the world, researchers regularly arrive at findings that confirm nothing they hoped to prove — and then, too often, those findings disappear. Science has long struggled with a quiet distortion: the tendency to celebrate discovery while quietly discarding the equally rigorous work that found nothing new. Yet a well-designed study that returns a null result is not a failure of inquiry; it is inquiry completing its proper work, narrowing the map of what is possible and pointing, sometimes unexpectedly, toward what remains worth exploring.