It’s fortunate that liars’ pants don’t really catch on fire. If they did, much of the world’s population would be ablaze at any given moment. “People lie most days,” says Kevin Colwell, a professor of ...

What if an app on your smartphone could verify that someone is telling you the truth? That seems to be the idea behind a lie detector app called VerifEye, which has been making the rounds for at least ...

As far as we've come in terms of scientific progress, there are some truly inexplicable parts of the human experience. Acquired savant syndrome, for example, whereby somebody attains seemingly ...