“Digital Science” is a term used to describe a state where the physical operations of scientific discovery are planned and executed with a “digital mirror”, enabling operational excellence and observability in our decision-making. Digital science uses the totality of the data from laboratory operations — people, samples, inventory, results — to provide an environment where the scientists who perform physical work are augmented by the laboratory software they use all day, every day. Lastly, “digital science” in practice provides FAIR + data and traceability ubiquitously as implicit functionality NOT at the expense of the researcher's experience.