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OoL digest — September 15
September 15, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial Life Life at the boundary of chemical kinetics and program execution Fischbacher —...
OoL digest — September 8
September 8, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial Life Automating the Search for Artificial Life With Foundation Models Kumar et al. —...
OoL digest — September 1st
September 1, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Exploring organic compound preservation through long-term in situ experiments in...
OoL digest — August 25
August 25, 2025
This week we have 27 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Retractions Many thanks to an attentive reader that brought this retraction to my attention....
OoL digest — August 18
August 18, 2025
This week we have 19 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class...
OoL digest — August 11
August 11, 2025
This week we have 23 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Stable Isotope Abundance Patterns as Potential Biosignatures Des Marais et al. —...
OoL digest — August 4
August 4, 2025
This week we have 14 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Communicating astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere: Speculations and...
OoL digest — July 28
July 28, 2025
This week we have 18 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial Life Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in...
OoL digest — July 21
July 21, 2025
This week we have 4 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial Life Abiotic lipid metabolism enables membrane plasticity in artificial cells...
OoL digest — July 14
July 17, 2025
This week we have 28 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Assessing Ocean World Habitability with HWO Cartwright et al. — preprint Life...
OoL digest — July 7
July 9, 2025
This week we have 38 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Is There Life on Mars? Studying the Context of Uncertainty in Astrobiology...
OoL digest — June 30
July 1, 2025
This week we have 24 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Effects of Transient Stellar Emissions on Planetary Climates of Tidally Locked...
OoL digest — June 23
June 23, 2025
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings Anderson et al. — preprint...
OoL digest — June 16
June 16, 2025
This week we have 10 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Challenges and Opportunities in Using Amino Acids to Decode Carbonaceous Chondrite...
OoL digest — June 9
June 9, 2025
This week we have 14 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Detecting Atmospheric CO2 Trends as Population-Level Signatures for Long-Term...
OoL digest — June 2
June 2, 2025
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology A Terminology and Quantitative Framework for Assessing the Habitability of Solar...
OoL digest — May 26
May 26, 2025
This week we have 23 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Rethinking Habitability using Biogenic Precursors: Formaldehyde in Millimeter...
OoL digest — May 19
May 19, 2025
This week we have 12 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology A Comparative Study of Novel Microscopic Entities in Rock Samples: Implications...
OoL digest — May 12
May 12, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Quantifying the Fermi paradox via passive SETI: a general framework Civiletti —...
OoL digest — May 5
May 5, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Life on the Edge: Using Planetary Context to Enhance Biosignatures and Avoid False...
OoL digest — April 28
April 28, 2025
This week we have 21 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology The source of hydrogen in earth’s building blocks Barrett et al. — Icarus...
OoL digest — April 21
April 21, 2025
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Necessary Conditions for Earthly Life Floating in the Venusian Atmosphere Abreu et...
OoL digest — April 14
April 14, 2025
This week we have 15 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology The Viability of Glycine Fermentation in Titan’s Subsurface Ocean Affholder et al....
OoL digest — April 7
April 7, 2025
This week we have 18 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Engineering Microbial Symbiosis for Mars Habitability Correll et al. — preprint...
OoL digest — March 31
March 31, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Spectroscopic Protocol for Biosignature Detection: Arctic Ice Samples as Analogs...
OoL digest — March 22
March 24, 2025
This week we have 18 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Microbes in Extreme Environments: Life at the Limits and Its Biotechnological...
OoL digest — March 17
March 17, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology From hydrated silica to quartz: Potential hydrothermal precipitates found in...
OoL digest — March 10
March 10, 2025
This week we have 13 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Potential Habitability of Present-Day Martian Subsurface for Earth-Like...
OoL digest — March 3
March 3, 2025
This week we have 17 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Rate-induced biosphere collapse in the Daisyworld model Arnscheidt et al. — Chaos:...
OoL digest — February 24
February 24, 2025
This week we have 15 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology The Venusian Chronicles Anchordoqui et al. — preprint Stronger Evidence of a...
OoL digest — February 17
February 17, 2025
This week we have 14 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology The EXO-UV program: lastest advances of experimental studies to investigate the...
OoL digest — February 10
February 10, 2025
This week we have 9 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial life Guideless Artificial Life Model for Reproduction, Development, and Interactions...
OoL digest — February 3
February 3, 2025
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Waste Heat and Habitability: Constraints from Technological Energy Consumption...
OoL digest — January 27
January 27, 2025
This week we have 15 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Waste Heat and Habitability: Constraints from Technological Energy Consumption...
OoL digest — January 20
January 20, 2025
This week we have 28 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Survival and Transfer of Microorganisms beyond the Earth: To What Extent are...
OoL digest — January 13
January 13, 2025
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Network and Kinetics-based Biosignatures: Implications for the Putative Habitable...
OoL digest — January 6
January 6, 2025
This week we have 7 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology The Fate of Oceans on First-Generation Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs Becker et al....
OoL digest — December 30 edition
December 30, 2024
This week we have 4 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Where the microbes aren’t Cockell — FEMS Microbiology Reviews The present epoch may...
OoL digest — December 23 edition
December 25, 2024
This week we have 24 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial life Modeling the Mutation and Competition of Certain Nutrient-Producing Protocells...
OoL digest — December 16 edition
December 16, 2024
This week we have 18 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Marine Science Can Contribute to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life Aguzzi et...
OoL digest — December 9 edition
December 9, 2024
This week we have 30 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Solar System Migration Points to a Renewed Concept: Galactic Habitable Orbits Baba...
OoL digest — December 2 edition
December 2, 2024
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like...
OoL digest — November 25 edition
November 25, 2024
This week we have 17 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial life Complexity, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intelligence Gershenson —...
OoL digest — November 18 edition
November 18, 2024
This week we have 12 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Travel Times of a Descending Melting Probe on Europa Carballido — Astrobiology...
OoL digest — November 11 edition
November 11, 2024
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Massive Ice Sheet Basal Melting Triggered by Atmospheric Collapse on Mars, Leading...
OoL digest — November 4 edition
November 4, 2024
This week we have 24 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology An experimental study of the biological impact of a superflare on the TRAPPIST-1...
OoL digest — October 28 edition
October 28, 2024
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology A Machine-Learning Approach to Biosignature Exploration on Early Earth and Mars...
OoL digest — October 21 edition
October 21, 2024
This week we have 18 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Astrobiology Evidence for Abiotic Dimethyl Sulfide in Cometary Matter Hänni et al. — preprint...
OoL digest — October 14 edition
October 14, 2024
This week we have 12 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! Artificial life Survival and Evolutionary Adaptation of Populations Under Disruptive Habitat...
OoL digest — October 7 edition (corrected version)
October 7, 2024
This week we have 17 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy! A previous version was just sent with several papers missing. Sorry for the duplicate message....
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