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 ...

For decades, scientists have been exploring whether gut feelings can actually sense events before they happen. Known as precognition, this eerie phenomenon has long been dismissed as superstition.

In 1946, a man called John Godley – then a student at Oxford University – dreamt he was reading a list of horse race winners in a newspaper and saw the names Bindal and Juladdin. The following day he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever get that weird feeling where you just know something’s going to happen? Turns out, science might actually have an explanation ...

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 ...