The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found itself embroiled in a rather odd situation involving polygraph tests. In April, it confirmed to NPR that it was using these tests to catch personnel ...

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 ...

The polygraph or lie detector test has been in use for over 100 years. It has been heralded as a technological marvel that allows investigators to accurately determine when someone is lying and when ...

In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing ...

Leonarde and Katherine Keeler pose with the Keeler Polygraph machine, 1935. Courtesy Everett Collection. This article is the first in a series called A Thousand Words, where we feature an interesting ...

Introduction: Plotting the hyperbola of deception -- "A thieves' quarter, a devil's den": the birth of criminal man -- "A vast plain under a flaming sky": the ...