A digital twin should make a risky claim

Manlio De Domenico, Valeria d’Andrea, Marco Grassia, Giuseppe Mangioni & Barbara Di Camillo 
Nature Physics (2026)

As the term ‘digital twin’ spreads across science and technology, it risks losing scientific meaning. Such a twin should not denote just a digital replica, but a computational model that can be updated, tested against intervention and shown to fail.As the term ‘digital twin’ spreads across science and technology, it risks losing scientific meaning. Such a twin should not denote just a digital replica, but a computational model that can be updated, tested against intervention and shown to fail.

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