Does tweaking gravity's rules explain cosmic acceleration?

Using a variant of general relativity built on 'teleparallel' geometry — where torsion replaces curvature — the authors fit an exponential tweak to the gravitational equations against 31 Hubble rate measurements. The model smoothly connects early cosmic deceleration to today's accelerating expansion and lands in the quintessence zone, edging toward but never quite becoming the standard cosmological constant. It's a consistency check, not a breakthrough, but it tightens the allowed parameter space for this class of modified gravity.