How often do Carrington-type solar storms occur? "Occurrence rate of extreme magnetic storms" http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4417
Possibility of transient room-temp superconductivity "Superradiant Superconductivity" http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4567 Nanoparticles may focus fields to arbitrarily high strengths "The Physics of Unbounded, Broadband Absorption/Gain Efficiency in Plasmonic Nanoparticles" http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3797