13-02-21 Sony has announced its next-generation gaming console - the PlayStation 4 - at an event in New York. 索尼在纽约的一项活动中宣布将发售下一代游戏机PS4。 Its new hardware is designed to offer superior graphics as well as new social features including t...

13-02-14 Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers. 德国最新调查显示，Facebook上好友发布的度假、爱情生活、工作成就等信息会引发嫉妒心...

13-01-31 Comforting a friend or relative in distress may be a more hard-wired behavior than previously thought, according to a new study of bonobos（倭黑猩猩） , which are great apes known for their empathy and close relation to humans and chimpanzees. This...

13-01-17 Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this pest. The red fire ants live in two differ...

12-12-28 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Social Networks Security Research Group in its Department of Information Systems Engineering has developed a novel method to predict how well or badly a student will perform in an academic course. The infor...

12-12-18 Chatterboxing means watching a program on television, while talking to others about that program online, normally via a social media platform. Chatterboxing指一边收看某个电视节目，一般通过社交媒体平台跟别人讨论该节目的行为，在中文语境下，可译为看电...

12-12-13 Social bubble (or interpersonal bubble) describes the situation in which people seem to have a wide range of social connections, but when it comes to real friendship, few remain in the circle. Following the wave of financial bubble and real estate b...

12-12-12 Participating in online social networks can have a detrimental effect（有害作用） on consumer well-being by lowering self-control among certain users, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Using online social networks can hav...

12-12-12 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the government will continue to work hard to promote social justice during his last year in office. He said the government has done a lot of work over the past nine years for the social equity and justice. 温家宝总理...

12-12-08 荷兰首都阿姆斯特丹将在该市郊外建立一个人渣村，那些爱滋事的邻居或者有反社会行为的租户都将集中在活动房或集装箱内居住6个月，期间只能享受最低限度的生活服务，并24小时受警察和社工监控。 Amsterdam is to create Scum villages where nuisance neighbors and ant...