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Lots of psychics in Star Trek. Vulcans, Betazoids, and Ocampa for instance.
~~I feel like there are some in The Culture series but its been a minute since I read them and I only got a few books in.~~
Dune has a lot of kinda-psychics. Paul and pretty much all the Atreides after him would count i think.
There are some in the Foundation series I believe
Starship Troopers had Neal Patrick Harris read a bug's mind
Just about anything that's not especially "hard" sci-fi tends to have psychics of one sort or another. I dont remember any psychics in The Expanse or BattleTech but my knowledge of both is rather limited edit BattleTech no, The Expanse yes from a cursory search
Also how was OP's 40k xeno example orks and not Eldar ;D orks are way cooler and more fun i agree tho
The ship Grey Area uses technology to read flesh minds while investigating war crimes. The other Minds consider that an abuse of power and call it the 'Meatfucker' behind its back. I don't recall any other (pseudo-) psychic phemonema.
Thanks! Yeah the more i think about it the more i doubt reading about psychics, which i imagine had to be deliberate seeing as humans had developed absolutely insane levels of control over their bodies (sex changes, producing drugs, etc just by deciding to)