The Quantum Internet's Waiting Problem
Quantum packages spoil fast, and the network that carries them is slow. A new idea lets the physics help run the network.
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7 Nov 2026 · Deck
We turn complex data into stories impossible to ignore.
A two-person data-journalism studio. The map does the argument, the prose does the meaning — and we refuse to let the distance between what is true and what is understood be someone else’s problem.
By the Vizmaya studioUpdated 7 Nov 2026
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The stories
The newest first. Every one of them is also in the book, on the board and in the deck.
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TimeArch: why AI-built software needs a paper trail
A 2026 paper adds four steps and human sign-offs to AI software design. Its own test found different scores on the same input.
6 Nov 2026 · Deck
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Regalianus: the emperor who stamped his face on old coins
A Roman emperor ruled for months in AD 260. About 130 of his coins survive, all struck over older money. In 2025 Vienna's museum bought 22.
6 Nov 2026 · Board
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Why Martin Karplus Won
6 Nov 2026
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Fish farm feed efficiency: what breeding actually delivered
Feed is 50 to 70% of fish-farm costs. Ten generations of breeding cut trout feed use by 17 to 20%. Gene editing is still unproven.
6 Nov 2026 · Deck
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Romila Thapar's Asoka: a verified number, not a count
Asoka's Rock Edict XIII states 150,000 deported and 100,000 killed in Kalinga. Romila Thapar's 1961 book lets us verify the words, not the count.
6 Nov 2026 · Deck
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How do you watch a tricky dance?
A picture story for young children about Jainendra K. Jain's composite fermions, the Wolf Prize idea that turns tricky fractions into simple whole numbers.
6 Nov 2026 · Deck
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Plain AI science summaries: more understood, less smart
In a 2024 PNAS Nexus study, readers of plain GPT-4 science summaries explained the research better (0.92 vs 0.72) but rated the scientist as less smart.
5 Nov 2026 · Deck
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AI-simplified science: readers learn more, trust is mixed
In a 2024 PNAS Nexus study, readers explained research better after plain GPT-4 summaries (0.92 vs 0.72), but trust gains were mixed.
5 Nov 2026 · Collage
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Milton Friedman’s Nobel: money matters, and is hard to aim
Milton Friedman’s 1976 Nobel rewarded evidence that monetary policy moves the economy, and research showing why expectations and delays make fine-tuning hard.
5 Nov 2026 · Deck
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Martha Nussbaum on how institutions shape intimate life
Nussbaum's 1997 book Sex, Preference, and Family asks how institutions shape intimate life before law regulates it. Not one of the 8 books her 2018 prize named.
5 Nov 2026 · Collage
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US midterms 2026: Democrats win the House and Senate
Democrats won both chambers in the 2026 US midterms: 54 Senate seats with two races uncalled, and a House majority built on 35 flipped seats.
5 Nov 2026 · Board
Doom v Boom, every morning
Each morning we read the previous day of AI data-centre, energy and sustainability news and score it: a Boom Score out of 100, where 50 is balanced.
51Balanced+0.01 · Boom Score / 100Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunges 12% as AI infrastructure selloff deepens; Google commits $17 billion in WyomingFri 6 Nov · No. 45Read 56Boom-leaning+0.13 · Boom Score / 100US voters back data center curbs in at least 29 communities as Riot signs $28 billion Anthropic leaseThu 5 Nov · No. 44Read 84Boom, decisively+0.68 · Boom Score / 100Brookfield and Drax plan $27 billion UK AI data centre as Meta weighs $20 billion debt saleWed 4 Nov · No. 43Read
The epics
Investigations we keep returning to: each a collection of stories with a landing page of its own.
Coke Studio PakistanFifteen seasons of Coke Studio Pakistan — songs, languages, and the places the lyrics keep coming home to.Enter the collection Energy ProfileLive energy news, country profiles, and vizmaya stories on the global energy transition.Enter the collection EpsteinAn interactive map of Jeffrey Epstein's private flights, the people who flew on them, and the addresses in his black book.Enter the collection
The studio
Two people who make data stories for others, and publish their own.
The map does the argument. The prose does the meaning.
- 01A data briefYou bring findings worth publishing. We read the data the way a sceptical reader would.
- 02An editorial callWe agree the argument, the evidence and the one chart that carries it.
- 03Two to four weeksMaps, charts and prose, built to travel: a scrolling story, a book, a board or a deck.
Have data that deserves a better story?
We work with B2B data companies, research institutions and think tanks who have findings worth publishing but need the storytelling and design layer to make them travel. A typical engagement starts with a data brief and an editorial call. Turnaround is two to four weeks.