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Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released the results of a polygraph test focused on the decades-old ...

You've probably seen a lie detector in a movie or TV show, its stylus scratching an ink line across a scrolling page and jumping when the subject lies. Sometimes the polygraph is presented as ...

Sitting in front of a Converus EyeDetect station, it’s impossible not to think of Blade Runner. In the 1982 sci-fi classic, Harrison Ford’s rumpled detective identifies artificial humans using a steam ...

Jessica Gabel Cino does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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 ...

Your next video call might include an invisible polygraph examiner. Google and competitors are racing to deploy AI systems that promise to catch lies through voice patterns, facial microexpressions, ...