In Season 8, Episode 10 of "The Simpsons" — an episode parodying the popular 1990s sci-fi thriller "The X-Files" — Homer Simpson is being questioned by two federal agents at a police station. "This is ...

John Larson's original polygraph, a gift to the Smithsonian from the Berkeley Police Department, where Larson was the first rookie cop with a PhD. Cade Martin In order to catch liars, the ancient ...

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 ...

It used to be that the most feared instrument in the arsenal of a police investigator was the polygraph, or lie detector machine. Now the most feared thing might be a simple microphone and a laptop ...

Get all of the “In Russia, automated teller machines take money from you” jokes out of your system now, because it turns out that Russian ATMs really are getting more advanced than their Western ...