Comment No scoop, 'Majorana' has been observed in 2012. (Score 2) 99
Nature has the article in April 2012 'Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices':
[ http://www.sciencemag.org/cont... ]
Which led to reports in popular online media:
[ http://news-beta.slashdot.org/... ]