This week we have 44 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!

Artificial Life

To Engineer an Angel, First Validate the Devil: Analyzing the “Could Be” in Artificial Life’s “Life as-It-Could-Be”
Dorin et al. — Artificial Life

Astrobiology

Born on Mars: Multigenerational phenotypic change in Caenorhabditis elegans under Martian analog gravity and hypomagnetic fields
Akinosho et al. — preprint

Caves on Earth as proxies for Martian subsurface environments
Biagioli et al. — International Journal of Astrobiology

The Eschatian Hypothesis
Kipping — preprint

Life in the brine of Lunenburg, Germany: unveiling microorganisms associated with Zechstein salt deposits
Runzheimer et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology

Astrochemistry

The role of supernova remnants for the emergence of pre-biotic chemistry in molecular clouds
Cosentino et al. — preprint

Experimental investigation of O2 diffusion and entrapment in interstellar amorphous solid water (ASW)
Coulaud et al. — preprint

The Emergence of Prebiotic Chemistry in the ISM
Jimenez-Serra et al. — preprint

First mapping of prebiotic molecule CH2NH in a pre-stellar core
Lin et al. — preprint

Nitrogen- and oxygen-rich organic material indicative of polymerization in pre-aqueous cryochemistry on Bennu’s parent body
Sandford et al. — Nature Astronomy

Astrophysics

Transients as Determinants of Habitability
Majidi et al. — preprint

Cosmic-Ray Bath in a Past Supernova Gives Birth to Earth-Like Planets
Sawada et al. — Science Advances

Biochemistry

Evolution of promoter-proximal pausing enabled a new layer of transcription control
Chivu et al. — Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Influence of Rare Earth Elements on Prebiotic Reaction Networks Resembling the Biologically Relevant Krebs Cycle
Gutenthaler-Tietze et al. — Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Reversing Lanmodulin's Metal-Binding Sequence in Short Peptides Surprisingly Increases the Lanthanide Affinity
Gutenthaler-Tietze et al. — Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Heuristic model on the origin of the homochirality of life
Subbotin et al. — preprint

Chemistry

Interstep compatibility of a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA consistent with Hadean natural history
Hirakawa et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Geoscience

The Oxygen Valve on Hydrogen Escape Since the Great Oxidation Event
Cooke et al. — preprint

Detection of the deep biosphere in metamorphic rocks from the Chinese continental scientific drilling
Dai et al. — Geobiology

Mathematical Biology

Stability-Driven Assembly Theory
Adler — Journal of Theoretical Biology

Microbiology

Cytoplasmic fluidity and the cold life: proteome stability is decoupled from viability in psychrophiles
Caviglia et al. — Nature Communications

On the transitional character and regularity of planetary abiogenesis
Dolgikh — BioSystems

Fungal–Mineral Interaction: Astrobiology Insights from Iron-Rich Mineral Alteration by an Extremophile Black Fungus
dos Santos et al. — JACS Au

High pressures depress the onset of intracellular vitrification
Gault et al. — PLOS ONE

Cyanobacteria Under UV Radiation: General Insights into Stress Responses
Mazur et al. — International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Integration of multiple metabolic pathways supports high rates of carbon precipitation in living microbialites
Sipler et al. — Nature Communications

Philosophy

Origin Explanation
Malaterre — Philosophy of Science

Physics

Self-Organization, Memory, and Learning: From Driven Disordered Systems to Living Matter
Mungan et al.

Planetary Sciences

On the Divergent Evolution of Io and Europa as Primordial Ocean Worlds
Bennacer et al. — preprint

Observing spatial and temporal variations in the atmospheric chemistry of rocky exoplanets: prospects for mid-infrared spectroscopy
Braam et al. — preprint

Halogen partitioning and structural incorporation in K- and Na-jarosite: Experimental insights under Mars-relevant conditions
Chang et al. — Planet

Probing thermal gradients of habitable-zone rocky planets using direct imaging as an anti-indicator of a global surface ocean
Fujii et al. — preprint

Titan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean
Petricca et al. — Nature

Understanding the chemistry of temperate exoplanets atmospheres through experimental and numerical simulations
Sohier et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Reconstituting transcription–translation-coupled DNA replication within complex in vitro biological systems
Zheng et al. — Nature Communications

Wise Theme Issue

These papers are grouped together as they belong to the same Interface Focus theme issue.

Lyfe: learning to learn better
Bartlett et al. — Interface Focus

Cosmic evolution might unify natural science and help remedy human society
Chaisson — Interface Focus

The creation of information: how evolution generates novel improvisations in the biosphere
Roli et al. — Interface Focus

Evolution in space: experimental pathways to understanding life’s adaptability beyond Earth
Sadier et al. — Interface Focus

Deriving microbial food web structure by maximizing entropy production over variable timescales
Vallino et al. — Interface Focus

Evolution by natural induction II: further interactions with natural selection
Watson et al. — Interface Focus

Evolution by natural induction
Watson et al. — Interface Focus

Selective funnelling and state-space expansion: a conceptual framework for novelty generation and origin events
Wong et al. — Interface Focus

Introduction to WISE theme issue, part II
Wong et al. — Interface Focus