For years, the strange phenomenon of precognition–an unwavering “gut feeling” that something will happen in the future–has puzzled scientists. The eerie concept may sound far-fetched, but many studies ...

On an early October night in 1989, a four-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone call and a scream. She tiptoed barefoot on the clammy vinyl tile of the hallway. “He died in a car accident!” her ...

Because if you have and you’ve done so on more than one occasion, consider yourself clairvoyant. Scientists define having a “gut feeling” as an unwavering strange feeling that something will occur in ...

Key points A decade ago, Daryl Bem's flawed paper on precognition was published in the leading social psychology journal. Bem's paper radically changed psychology, but not by increasing acceptance of ...

You’ve probably had that eerie feeling before—knowing what’s about to happen before it actually does. Coincidence? Or something deeper? In Pop Mech Explains: Precognition, host and contributor ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You’ve probably had that eerie feeling before—knowing what’s about to happen before it actually does.

You’ve probably had that eerie feeling before — knowing what’s about to happen before it actually does. Flashes of deja vu. A text from someone you were just ...

In my previous post, we looked at how studying “unserious” topics like reactions to alien life or competing with robots for jobs can give us deeper insight into what makes us tick, and maybe even how ...