OoL digest — December 18 edition
This week we have 14 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Turning Earth into Venus: A Stochastic Model of Possible Evolutions of Terrestrial Topography
Adams et al. – preprint
Testing the Limits of Biosignature Detection in Ca-sulphate Mixtures Through a Simulated Martian Environment
Ballard et al. – Research Notes of the AAS
Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (LITMS) Instrument Field and Laboratory Tests as Part of the ARADS Field Campaigns
Castillo et al. – Astrobiology
An evidence of rapid hydrogen chloride uptake on water ice in the atmosphere of Mars
Luginin et al. – preprint
Detection of HCN and diverse redox chemistry in the plume of Enceladus
Peter et al. – Nature Astronomy
Planetary entropy production as a thermodynamic constraint for exoplanet habitability
Petraccone – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bridging Place-Based Astrobiology Education with Genomics, Including Descriptions of Three Novel Bacterial Species Isolated from Mars Analog Sites of Cultural Relevance
Prescott et al. – Astrobiology
Prospects for Cryovolcanic Activity on Cold Ocean Planets
Quick et al. – The Astrophysical Journal
JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS+): Detection of icy complex organic molecules and ions. I. CH, SO, HCOO, OCN, HCO, HCOOH, CHCHOH, CHCHO, CHOCHO, CHCOOH
Rocha et al. – preprint
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Detection and Characterization of Anomalous Transits in Kepler Lightcurves
Zuckerman et al. – preprint
Biochemistry
Predicting the First Steps of Evolution in Randomly Assembled Communities
McEnany et al. – preprint
A single phosphorylation mechanism in early metabolism – the case of phosphoenolpyruvate
Zimmermann et al. – Chemical Science
Biophysics
How do particles with complex interactions self-assemble?
Koehler et al. – preprint
The calculus of codes - From entropy, complexity, and information to life
Paredes et al. – Biosystems