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 ...

In Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as “percipient” seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets ...

Recent revelations from declassified CIA files have sparked a renewed interest in the legendary Ark of the Covenant, suggesting that its location might have been identified through a series of psychic ...

For the past four years the band have been conducting parapsychological experiments based upon the classic Ganzfeld (“total field”) experiment, but with a twist: instead of sending and receiving ...

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 ...