Check out Babylon 5, telepaths are a major part of the story for so many reasons.
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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
I feel like there are some in The Culture series
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)
In the book chysalids the main characters are psychics and can draw shapes and emotions In their minds and it broadcasts out for miles and can be picked up by others like them. They all communicate on a global channel and have to conceal it from the humans who are deeply distrusting of anything different.
Not sure why you're asking for the most popular...
But Stranger in a Strange Land eventually gets around to that.
It's about a human raised by Martians, and he learned a Martian telepathic language that can alter reality. But when returned to Earth, he has no idea how humans act, and is basically an infant.
But it's one of those books that changes a lot,bthe begining isn't what you're looking for, but just stick with it.
I like the psionics (or well Psycasts) in rimworld and it has a prominent enough role.
Mind tech that calls some machine superintelligence to alter reality, bestowed by space feudalism.
You can find the Kronenburg movie Scanners on Archive.org
Akira is another big one.
Names of some of the stuff are Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis (and Cryokinesis), Psychokinesis, Precognition, Postcognition, Astral Projection, and that one word for finding lost objects or dead bodies I forget. And sometimes Empathy.
EDIT: Dowsing!
Damn how did i forget Akira
Dune has lucid "prophets" (the guild navigators, Paul and Leto II, for example), and Paul can even see/feel his way around the world through his prophetic visions when he loses his sight in Messiah. "The voice" is described almost as an advanced technique that is purely physical and psychological and not magical so idk if it fits.
The Voice maybe not but being able to see the future like Paul and Leto II do definitely fits