Short version: Everything but one is currently in research from the list I provided.

The delay was due to my droid II crashing a large number of times while using Dolphin to find content (this phone hates my preferred web browser).

I read a lot of stuff per a day. Facebook, Dailytech, Foxnews. Hotair, Drudge, RedState, TechnologyReview. American Spectator, Wattsupwiththat, daybydaycartoon, Michelle Malkin.... and a lot more.

Yes most is politics but I still keep very abreast of current science and technology... and I remember it at least moderately. I am looking for that miracle investment, the chance to put a thousand in and get ten thousand back.

Here is a list of scientific endevours based upon my post that are recent.

Let's list some:
Graphene
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120524134613.htm (solar)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6085/1140.abstract (Diode and other electronics)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6071/947.short (transistor)
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-graphene-scientists-toxic-rust-proof-steel.html (Rust Proofing)
The area of Graphene is expansive with research in making more 'error proof' sheets, larger sheets, various doping methods for a huge variety of uses, research as a super conductor, as transistors, as heat sheilding, as shielding, as armor, as solar cell material, and as a strengthener in materials. Lots of research is ongoing in the field and I have been monitoring a lot of it.

Carbon Nanotubes
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v9/n5/full/nmat2759.html (thermal heat, thrust, and electricity generation)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/explosive-detection-0510.html (bomb detection)
https://plus.google.com/114250946512808775436/posts/j8upHvaATXf (3d wafer production including Carbon-Nanotubes [this was an amazing breakthrough!])
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24942 (same as above, just with one of my usual sites)
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24999 (All Nanotube and Buckyball solar cwll)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709133552.htm (research into long strands)
Carbon Nanotubes has seen research sumilar to graphene. A few years ago this research included Anode and Cathode for batteries but lack of a significant production of nanotubes has prevented this from being affordable. A company has recently (I am thinking November) found a secret method for making carbon nanotubes of several inches in length but there seems to be a quality control issue on their tubes. However carbon nanotubes have great promise as a shaft covered in a sheath would be near frictionless. Advances in carbonnanotubes include placing explosives in the tubes for thrust, heat, and electricity. This promises a form of emergency power that could never 'run out' prior to need. The work in 3d model transistors is extremely promising and happened so quickly. Combined with improvements in quality control and production we may see transistors of extreme power in a couple of years. Moore's law is still valid thanks to these advances.

Buckyballs
See above solar cell with Carbon Nanotubes
http://www.gizmag.com/diet-buckyballs-extending-lifespan/22245/ (rats lived double long on a diet of Buckyballs)
http://www.news.vcu.edu/news/Researchers_Develop_Buckyballs_to_Fight_Allergy (fighting Allergies)
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=24016.php (research with Spintronics)
Buckyballs is somewhat old but recently a lot of research with them has been done, from solar applications to electronics, to drug delivery, cancer fighting, food allergies, and more. The problem is that a lot of claims are going on but not as much vetting. I somewhat wonder if Buckyballs are the new Snake Oil.

Racetrack Memory
This one requires a preface. Racetrack Memory is a new take on Spintronics and nanoscale wire by IBM and a research facility in France. Researchers have made the spin of electrons go in specific directions (Spintronics) and found they could move up and down 'magnetic cells' in a nanowire and access the 'memory' which is the spintronics electrons. Work has made a  single cell move up and down, and done the spintronics. Uniting them has not happened (last I read) nor have they gotten more than one cell to move up/down (though they have made multiple cells before).

This advance would make memory that is fast, stable, and could replace hard drives and RAM entirely. Storage/RAM would be in the hundreds of terrabytes.

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/spinaps/ (IBM site)

Lithium-Ion Nuclear power
I yeild here, while I wait for actual deployment I check up on it. It is only an engineering challenge for like 5+ years now. Still the idea stimulates my mind.

Ion Engines
https://rt.grc.nasa.gov/2011/nasas-new-ion-engine-ready-for-missions-in-space/ (NASA new Ion Engine)

Research in Ion Engines is about increasing longevity, reducing cost, reducing weight, reducing energy needed and increasing thrust.

Plasma Engines
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-blast.html (first plasma powered Satelite)
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/03/23/weekly2-MIT-rocket-scientist-Batishchev-hopes-for-engine-blastoff.html (still waiting for word on this research and when it will be a product)
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/01vasimr/ (read the article and you find research, new technology, and science repeated)

Glass
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=19633.php (better than Steel)
http://icom.epfl.ch/glass/ (Structural Glass research)
http://www.dailytech.com/Bulk+Metallic+Glasses+Are+Strong+Like+Steel+Mold+Like+Plastic/article21025.htm http://www.dailytech.com/New+Metallic+Glass+is+Strongest+Toughest+Material+Available/article20627.htm (some of the earlier works)

Other
http://www.dailytech.com/BoronCarbon+Nanosponges+Used+to+Absorb+Oil+from+Water+/article24481.htm (oil "sponge")

Stuff from top of my head (no links) plastics molded certain ways become magnetic, radiowaves can seperate oxygen and hydrogen in water,  gold nanoparticles used to treat cancer, 3D microchip production (interesting fact... I worked at a place making the first machines to do this), mind reading stuff (manybdifferent concepts!), new sheaths for broken nerves (works wonders), the newly talked about dental stuff (one repairs and another precents decay!), and new solar crap (a lot of different stuff out there, none very promising yet).

I read tech and science news on many sites but two stand out for my 'first reads' and those are MIT's www.technologyreview.com and www.dailytech.com

Others include anandtech, foxnews, yahoonews, science.com lifescience, populartechnology (not happy with that one right now, gone very hard to the left), and many more.

I even own a complete scientific encyclopedia (largest book ever!). Yeah I am a junky for science. There is one thing I do very well and that is read.