OoL digest — December 2 edition
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like methanogens
Butturini et al. — preprint
Mesoarchean Microbial Cd, Ba, and Ni Cycling: Evidence for Photosynthesis in Pongola Group Stromatolites through Novel Stable Isotopes and High-Resolution Trace Element Maps
Hohl et al. — Astrobiology
Organic Products of Fatty Acid and Magnesium Sulfate Mixtures after Gamma Radiolysis: Implications for Missions to Europa
Lewis et al. — Astrobiology
Lightning-Driven Pyrite Oxidation Under Archean Atmosphere Conditions
Long et al. — Astrobiology
Simplified Meteorite Parent Body Alteration of Amino Acids by Hydrothermal Processes
Materese et al. — Astrobiology
Translation as a Biosignature
McKaig et al. — Astrobiology
Self-Sustaining Living Habitats in Extraterrestrial Environments
Wordsworth et al. — Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Anomaly Detection and RFI Classification with Unsupervised Learning in Narrowband Radio Technosignature Searches
Jacobson-Bell et al. — preprint
Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE) \RNum{3}: Introducing the KEN
Latouf et al. — preprint
Impacts of UV Radiation from an AGN on Planetary Atmospheres and Consequences for Galactic Habitability
Sippy et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Self‐Replication Without Hydrogen‐Bonds: An Exobiotic Design
Ams et al. — Chemistry – A European Journal
Light-Mediated Interconversion between a Foldamer and a Self-Replicator
Jin et al. — Journal of the American Chemical Society
Wet–dry cycles cause nucleic acid monomers to polymerize into long chains
Song et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Simultaneous Formation of a Foldamer and a Self-Replicator by Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Sood et al. — Journal of the American Chemical Society
Chemistry
Competitive exclusion among self-replicating molecules curtails the tendency of chemistry to diversify
Eleveld et al. — Nature Chemistry
Geosciences
“Clues of Life” through Mineral Lattice Investigation in the Extreme Cold Conditions of Ladakh, India: An Astrobiological Perspective Using the Geyser Travertine Deposit of Puga Hot Spring
Chaddha et al. — preprint
Iron sulfide-catalyzed gaseous CO2 reduction and prebiotic carbon fixation in terrestrial hot springs
Nan et al. — Nature Communications
Microbiology
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes
Richards et al. — PLOS Biology
Planetary sciences
The Source of Hydrogen in Earth’s Building Blocks
Barrett et al. — preprint
Constraining Ocean and Ice Shell Thickness on Miranda from Surface Geological Structures and Stress Modeling
Strom et al. — The Planetary Science Journal