This week we have 31 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Please note that inclusion of these papers reflects topic, not quality, and that evaluating scientific merit is out of scope for this newsletter.

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Artificial Life

Continuous Game of Life: cell emergence and self-organization at the edge of growth
Guillet et al. — preprint

Hash Chemistry: Minimal Models for Evolutionary Growth of Complexity
Horiguchi et al. — preprint

Astrobiology

Breakthrough Listen's Automated Commensal Technosignature Survey with MeerKAT
Czech et al. — preprint

How Viking Changed Science Communication
Druyan — Astrobiology

Project Hephaistos -- III. Characterizing anomalous infrared sources identified as Dyson-sphere candidates
Korn et al. — preprint

Methane Production on Mars-Relevant Clay Minerals and Simulant Regolith
Mickol et al. — Microorganisms

Development of a data retrieval algorithm for Venus nephelometry in preparation for the Rocket Lab Mission to Venus
Moreno et al. — Icarus

Stellar Activity, Exoplanet, Habitability, Planetary Atmospheres
Segura et al. — preprint

Stellar J-Harvesting: a novel angular momentum technosignature and first search in the Kepler field
Torlakcik — preprint

Astrochemistry

When Two Worlds Collide: How Collisions Between Silicate and Carbonaceous Nanograins can Drive Complex Chemistry
Kyriazis et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Detecting habitable exoplanet atmospheres with LIFE, the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets
Rugheimer et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Codepoietic biological evolution: From the origin of life to eukaryogenesis
Igamberdiev — BioSystems

Chemistry

Optimization of Kinetic--Stoichiometric Growth Bounds over Autocatalytic Subnetworks
Blanco et al. — preprint

Hydroxy acid conjugation to lipids increases structural and hydrolytic stability
Edri et al. — Nature Communications

Morphogenic colloids
Fessler et al. — Nature Communications

Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life
Pigozzi et al. — preprint

Microbiology

Assessment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Survival Upon Exposure to Transient High Pressure and Temperature in a High-Intensity Shock Tube for Astrobiology (HISTA)
Dhage et al. — Bio-Protocol

Methanotrophy under extreme alkalinity in a serpentinizing system
Howells et al. — Nature Communications

Assessing the susceptibility of microalgae to space conditions using stratospheric balloons
Molnárová et al. — Scientific Reports

Deep subsurface organic-rich shale supports abundant, diverse, and novel fungi
Moon et al. — The ISME Journal

Microbial diversity in Pyrenean ice caves: extreme cryogenic environments as analogues for extraterrestrial habitability
Muñoz-Hisado et al. — FEMS Microbes

Comparative genomics of space-resilient Chroococcidiopsis cyanobacteria reveals a core genetic repertoire supporting extreme tolerance towards desert and non-Earth conditions
Rigano et al. — FEMS Microbes

Small-Scale Mineral and Microbial Heterogeneities near a Fumarole at the Furnas Hydrothermal Zone on the Azores
Schulze-Makuch et al. — Life

Physics

The Degree of Fine-Tuning Needed for a Viable Universe: Not Fragile?
Adams — preprint

Planetary Sciences

Characterizing the oxidation state of rocky exoplanets with the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE)
Cesario et al. — preprint

Subsurface Water Ice Mapping on Mars: A Probabilistic Approach
Courville et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

A consolidated Mössbauer spectrum for undisturbed soils from Gusev Crater, Mars
De Souza — Interactions

Meteor over New York City: Brines in a primitive CM asteroid
Jenniskens et al. — Science Advances

Thermal Detectability of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars: A Comparative Analysis for the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) Project
Sizemore et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

The JDISC Survey: Inner Disk Chemistry of Class I/FS Disks and Tentative Evidence for Early Pebble Drift
Zhang et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Degradation, Osmosis and the Emergence of Basic Functionalities in Abiotic Synthetic Life-like Chemical Systems
Lin et al. — Life