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Psionics.

Psionics is a broad category of alleged psychic abilities that includes telepathy, psychokinesis, pyrokinesis, and others.^{[1][not in citation given]} The term comes from psi ('psyche') and the -onics from electronics (machine).^[1][2]Parapsychology is a pseudoscience that began around 1889 and aims to study psionics and other supernatural claims.^{[3][page needed]} There is no scientific evidence that psionic abilities exist.^[4]

Psionic abilities appear frequently in science fiction and provide characters with supernatural abilities.^[5]John W. Campbell, an editor of a science fiction magazine, became excited about fringe science,^[6] and went on to define psionics as "engineering applied to the mind".^[7] His encouragement of psionics led author Murray Leinster and others to write stories such as The Psionic Mousetrap.^[6]