From schlocky daytime TV (Did you cheat on your girlfriend?) to police interrogations (Did you shoot him?), the old-fashioned polygraph is still considered a reliable way to get to the truth by many ...

A polygraph is commonly known as a lie detector but it’s really just a machine with a number of sensors that measure things like heart rate, breathing rate, galvanic skin response and blood pressure ...

Eighty years ago this week, inventor Leonarde Keeler proudly proclaimed his expert testimony before a Wisconsin jury to be “a signal victory for those who believe in scientific crime detection.” One ...

Most people think polygraphs — also called lie-detector tests — can determine whether you're lying. But the technology has its critics. "The public needs to know that polygraph testing has no ...

A letter penned by House Democrats indicates CISA’s former acting director failed a second polygraph examination during his ...

Your typical polygraph exam is not like those seen in the movies or on TV. The rules that govern how and when exams are performed are far different from those in Hollywood Questions are formulated ...

A porn star has an affair with a man who would later become the president. She gets paid to keep quiet, but still takes a polygraph test in an effort to prove the affair was real, knowing that someday ...

Madagascar's military leader, President Michael Randrianirina, announced Thursday that anyone applying to become a minister ...

Nova Scotia RCMP have conducted a second round of polygraph examinations in the disappearance of Jack and Lilly Sullivan, with two of those tests focused on a pink blanket found hanging in a tree.

A Cape Breton judge has ruled that a videotaped police statement given by a man charged with sexually assaulting a girl at a ...