This week we have 27 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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Astrobiology

Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: The Impact of Flare Temperature on Ozone Column Depth in Earth-Like Atmospheres
Crouse et al. — preprint

Abiogenesis on Different Star Types; a Dissipative Photochemical Perspective
Ledesma et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Slow-electron-triggered chemistry in interstellar methanol-water ices
Abdoul-Carime et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics

Aryl radical addition–dehydrocyclization drives rapid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon growth
Goettl et al. — Nature Communications

Astrophysics

Leveraging Impact Parameter to Mitigate the Transit Light Source Effect: Early Insights from TRAPPIST-1
Glidden et al. — preprint

Transit Searches for Habitable-Zone Exoplanets with Artificial Intelligence
Liu — preprint

Potential sublimating exocomets around the young star PDS 70
Novais et al. — Nature Communications

Panchromatic Spectra of Nearby Low-mass and Sun-like Stars with Directly Imageable Habitable Zones
Peacock et al. — preprint

Finding Habitable Exoplanets with Binary Relative Astrometry: Planet Detection and Characterization with the Microarcsecond Astrometric Retrieval Algorithm (MARA)
Roberson et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Palindrome in the sequence of the ribosomal peptidyl transferase center suggests a protoribosome emergence scheme
Agmon et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Coupled metabolic reactions relevant to early biological evolution
Boog et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Biophysics

From Meteorites to Membrane Rafts: Ganglioside-Incorporating Prebiotic Vesicles and the Emergence of Membrane Domain Organization
Lefebvre et al. — The Journal of Membrane Biology

Learning to outgrow the competition: Reaction–diffusion systems that adapt to time-dependent environments
Rivoire et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Visual and Instrumental Assessment of Interaction of UVC Radiation with Liposomes in FeCl3 Solutions
Subbotin et al. — preprint

Chemistry

Going in reverse to get it right in RNA replication
Murugan — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Geoscience

A nutrient control on oxygenation dynamics during Earth’s Great Oxidation Episode
Alcott et al. — Nature Communications

Interaction between vegetation and Snowball phases in the late Proterozoic Earth
Bisesi et al. — International Journal of Astrobiology

The Emergence of an Urable Earth: How Early Planetary Evolution Shaped the Chemical Window for Life’s Origin
Guo et al. — Life

Hydrogen bond reorganization activates water radical chemistry for CO₂ -to-methane conversion under geologically relevant pressures
Li et al. — Science Advances

Rethinking the origin of life at seafloor hydrothermal vents
Tutolo — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mathematical Biology

The first major transition: Origin of life from a multilevel selection perspective
Koonin — preprint

Microbiology

Widespread horizontal transfer and strong selection enhance microbial adaptation in Antarctic soils
Peng et al. — Nature Communications

Planetary Sciences

STXM-XANES and TEM analysis of UltraCarbonaceous Antarctic MicroMeteorites (UCAMMs)
Guérin et al. — preprint

The impact of tidal locking on Earth-like planetary dynamos
Hidalgo et al.

An Evolving Cosmic Shoreline and Sandbar Bounding the Rocky Airless Valley
Nguyen et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

A Model of UV–Blue Absorbance in Bulk Liquid of Venusian Cloud Aerosols Is Consistent with Efficient Organic Absorbers at High Concentrations
Spacek et al. — Astrobiology

Synthetic Biology

Reaction-induced selection of phase-separated RNA protocells
Verma et al. — preprint