In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a ...

Among the colorful, eccentric and often highly unethical characters who populate the history of the polygraph was the virtuous John Larson, who in 1920 was the only cop in America with a doctorate, ...

We can bet that everyone at some point has wanted to feel cool like Sherlock Holmes, untying mysteries just by casually glancing at the suspect. But is it as easy and fast in real life as it is in ...