Ramanujan Proved Right After 90 Years

Ramanujan believed that 17 new functions he discovered were "mock modular forms" that looked like theta functions when written out as an infinte sum (their coefficients get large in the same way), but weren't super-symmetric. [...] Emory University mathematician Ken Ono and his team recently proved that these functions indeed mimicked modular forms, but don't share their defining characteristics, such as super-symmetry.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/28/mathematician-century-old-secrets-unlocked/

2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/

Voyager at Edge of Solar System

Voyager 1  has entered a region of space with a markedly higher flow of charged particles from beyond our solar system. Mission scientists suspect this increased flow indicates that the spacecraft — currently 11.1 billion miles from Earth — may be poised to cross the boundary into interstellar space.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/18/nasa-voyager-1-spacecraft-nears-interstellar-space/

A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity

Same idea as Zwiebach's A First Course in String Theory. I highly recommend both books, whichever side of the intellectual divide you're on, or even if (particularly if?) you are agnostic on the question of the correct way to quantize gravity.