OoL digest — August 26 edition
This week we have 30 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial chemistry
Self-Organization in Computation & Chemistry: Return to AlChemy
Mathis et al. — preprint
Artificial life
The Ethics of Life as It Could Be: Do We Have Moral Obligations to Artificial Life?
Witkowski et al. — Artificial Life
Emergence of Self-Replicating Hierarchical Structures in a Binary Cellular Automaton
Yang — Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Climate Bistability at the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone due to Runaway Greenhouse and Cloud Feedbacks
Fan et al. — preprint
Glacial sculpting of a martian cratered landscape on the northeastern flank of the Hellas basin
Grau Galofre et al. — Icarus
A Bayesian Analysis of the Probability of the Origin of Life Per Site Conducive to Abiogenesis
Lingam et al. — Astrobiology
Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal
Méndez et al. — preprint
A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life
Mills et al. — preprint
Biosignature Molecules Accumulate and Persist in Evaporitic Brines: Implications for Planetary Exploration
Pozarycki et al. — Astrobiology
An Extragalactic Widefield Search for Technosignatures with the Murchison Widefield Array
Tremblay et al. — preprint
The Astrobiological Potential of the Uranian Moon System
Weber et al. — Astrobiology
Astrophysics
The source craters of the martian meteorites: Implications for the igneous evolution of Mars
Herd et al. — Science Advances
Analysis of Habitability and Stellar Habitable Zones from Observed Exoplanets
Jiang et al. — preprint
Pursuing Truth: Improving Retrievals on Mid-Infrared Exo-Earth Spectra with Physically Motivated Water Abundance Profiles and Cloud Models
Konrad et al. — preprint
The interior as the dominant water reservoir in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
Luo et al. — Nature Astronomy
Biochemistry
Did the exposure of coacervate droplets to rain make them the first stable protocells?
Agrawal et al. — Science Advances
Constructing the Molecular Tree of Life using Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry
Kahana et al. — preprint
Origins of Life: The Protein Folding Problem all over again?
Kocher et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
On the salient limitations of the methods of assembly theory and their classification of molecular biosignatures
Uthamacumaran et al. — npj Systems Biology and Applications
Chemistry
Self-Replication Without Hydrogen-Bonds: An Exobiotic Design
Ams et al. — Chemistry – A European Journal
Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry
Matreux et al. — preprint
Microbiology
The evolution of autonomy from two cooperative specialists in fluctuating environments
Chen et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time
Porfirio-Sousa et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Investigating Polyextremophilic Bacteria in Al Wahbah Crater, Saudi Arabia: A Terrestrial Model for Life on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
dos Santos et al. — Astrobiology
Enhanced metabolic entanglement emerges during the evolution of an interkingdom microbial community
Scarinci et al. — Nature Communications
Physics
Why and How do Complex Systems Self-Organize at All? Average Action Efficiency as a Predictor, Measure, Driver, and Mechanism of Self-Organization
Brouillet et al. — preprint
A dynamical systems perspective on the celestial mechanical contribution to the emergence of life
Zhang — preprint
Planetary sciences
Climatic Effects of Ocean Salinity on M Dwarf Exoplanets
Batra et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Earth-like planets hosting systems: Architecture and properties
Davoult et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics
The formation of the TRAPPIST-1 system in two steps during the recession of the disk inner edge
Pichierri et al. — Nature Astronomy