In "The frog robot condom," The Scientist invites us to follow Peter Narins, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has already been on 42 field expeditions, tracking the ...

For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...

“Robo-frog” has a way with the ladies. He has a speaker that broadcasts a realistic mating call and a shiny painted balloon that inflates and vibrates beneath his throat, perfectly mimicking the vocal ...