The Ghost of Howard Jarvis.

Big Yellow Taxi.

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1. Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with time. It’s a finding that has the potential to shake the foundations of physics. “If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about the nature of dark energy in 25 years,” said Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering dark energy in 1998. The new observations come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) team, which today unveiled a map of the cosmos of unprecedented scope, along with a bonanza of measurements derived from the map. To many researchers, the highlight is a plot showing that three different combinations of observations all insinuate that the influence of dark energy may have eroded over the eons. (Source: quantamagazine.org, italics mine)

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2. The world's most powerful MRI scanner has delivered its first images of human brains, reaching a new level of precision that is hoped will shed more light on our mysterious minds – and the illnesses that haunt them. Researchers hope that the scanner's power will shed light on the elusive mechanisms behind neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's – or psychological conditions like depression or schizophrenia. (Source: sciencealert.com)

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