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    There has been a growing interest and enthusiasm in using digital twins to accelerate scientific discovery and to help researchers and stakeholders with critical decision-making tasks.

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    To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, we at Nature Computational Science spoke with female researchers at various career stages to discuss their work, gender inequality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas, contrapower harassment, the leaky pipeline in research fields, and steps that can be taken to address some of these issues.

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    The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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    The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.

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    Environmental issues such as climate change, air and water pollution, and non-renewable energy, to name a few, continue to threaten a sustainable future. This Focus highlights the potential for computational tools to help address those challenges, as well as includes experts’ opinions on how these tools themselves can be improved to ensure a greener and more sustainable future.

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    Complex element combinations increase the variety of microstructural features and facilitate property manipulation for materials design.

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    Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.

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    In anticipation of the 2022 Nobel Prize announcements, this Focus issue highlights various contributions of the computational science community to previous Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics, including conversations with and commentaries from past Nobel laureates and other experts.

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    In January 2022, Nature Computational Science is celebrating its one-year anniversary.

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    The use and development of sophisticated computing capabilities to analyse and solve real-world, challenging problems has undoubtedly revolutionized the way researchers do science.