Editorials

This issue of Nature Computational Science includes a Focus that highlights recent advancements, challenges, and opportunities in the development and use of digital twins across different domains.

We discuss the different formats for publishing non-primary research that are currently supported by Nature Computational Science.

We continue our yearly tradition of highlighting our favorite cover suggestions that did not make it as covers at Nature Computational Science.

We describe the different formats for reporting primary research for which we currently provide support.

The Year of Open Science has highlighted the importance of sharing the code associated with peer-reviewed manuscripts. We at Nature Computational Science provide support — via policies and implementations within our submission system — to facilitate this task.

Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women in STEM careers, but also raises awareness of the challenges that women have faced in science, as well as the importance of female role models in STEM.

As we approach the half-way point in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, we discuss how computational science could help in reaching some of these goals by 2030.

Monitoring and reporting on the environmental impact of computational science research is critical to ensure a more sustainable future.

While the increasing availability of data creates unprecedented research opportunities, it is important to understand the provenance of these datasets to ensure reliable data-driven conclusions.

This month’s Focus issue highlights ongoing work by computational scientists to help address the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as discusses how the sustainability of computational science itself can be improved.

Even though Nature Computational Science is a computational-focused journal, some studies submitted to our journal might require experimental validation in order to verify the reported results and to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methods.

We highlight two primary research papers, published in this issue of Nature Computational Science, on computational methods for moiré magnets.

Materials design has largely expanded to multiple compositions, which requires the mixing of an increasing number of elements. In this joint Focus issue with Nature Materials, we take a closer look at the role of computational methods for guiding exploration within such vast chemical spaces.

We discuss the challenging task of forecasting the occurrence and magnitude of earthquakes.

Find out more about some of the image submissions from 2022 that almost made it as Nature Computational Science covers.

Recent changes to our submission system, including a better integration with the Code Ocean platform, make the code peer review process more effortless for authors and referees.

We discuss the research recognized by the most recent Nobel Prize in Physics, which has had important implications for quantum technologies.

How to write an effective cover letter.

The contributions of the computational science community to Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics take center stage in this month’s Focus issue.

On the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing’s seminal paper on morphogenesis, we look back at the history of the paper and its many applications.