This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from Chris French’s book “The Science of Weird Shit.” There is a hidden cause behind a fun little demonstration of ...

The big problem with mental powers is you can never prove they exist. They never seem to be repeatable under experimental conditions, like other sorts of phenomena. Until recently — when a researcher ...

In 1927, long before the age of smartphones and smartwatches, a group of British scientists decided to test whether telepathy—the ability to transmit thoughts from one person to another—could be real.

CIA agents apparently used "remote viewing" in an effort to locate the sacred Ark of the Covenant. But the first person to ever do psychic experiments for the CIA has his doubts. An unclassified CIA ...

The first person to subject psychic claims to statistical tests was Duke University researcher J.B. Rhine, who pioneered controlled experiments on what he termed extrasensory perception (ESP), later ...