OoL digest — December 16 edition
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 al. — Life
Diagenetic History and Biosignature Preservation Potential of Fine-Grained Rocks at Hogwallow Flats, Jezero Crater, Mars
Broz et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
On detecting and characterizing planetary oceans in the solar system using a distance-based ensemble modelling approach: application to the Uranus system
Cochrane et al. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Detecting and sizing the Earth with PLATO: A feasibility study based on solar data
Krenn et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics
Eta-Earth Revisited I: A Formula for Estimating the Maximum Number of Earth-like Habitats
Lammer et al. — preprint
A Novel Technosignature Search in the Breakthrough Listen Green Bank Telescope Archive
Painter et al. — preprint
Eta-Earth Revisited II: Deriving a Maximum Number of Earth-like Habitats in the Galactic Disk
Scherf et al. — Astrobiology
A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
Workgroup — preprint
Astrochemistry
Ionizing radiation exposure on Arrokoth shapes a sugar world
Zhang et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Astrophysics
Instrumentation prospects for rocky exoplanet atmospheres studies with high resolution spectroscopy
Rukdee — Scientific Reports
Biochemistry
An RNA condensate model for the origin of life
Fine et al. — preprint
Iron sulfide-catalyzed gaseous CO2 reduction and prebiotic carbon fixation in terrestrial hot springs
Nan et al. — Nature Communications
Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains
Wehbi et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Chemistry
Rules, hypergraphs, and probabilities: The three-level analysis of chemical reaction systems and other stochastic stoichiometric population processes
Smith et al. — PLOS Complex Systems
Geoscience
A nearly terrestrial D/H for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Mandt et al. — Science Advances
Microbiology
Photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis to investigate the role of bioenergetics in chloroplast function and evolution
De et al. — Nature Communications
Time course transcriptomic profiling suggests Crp/Fnr transcriptional regulation of nosZ gene in a N2O-reducing thermophile
Tsuchiya et al. — iScience
Planetary sciences
Electron-Induced Radiolysis of Water Ice and the Buildup of Oxygen
Tinner et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets