OoL digest — December 9 edition
This week we have 30 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Solar System Migration Points to a Renewed Concept: Galactic Habitable Orbits
Baba et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System
Barnes et al. — preprint
Distribution of Europium in The Milky Way Disk; Its Connection to Planetary Habitability and The Source of The R-Process
Carrasco et al. — preprint
Metastable Dihydrate of Sodium Chloride at Ambient Pressure
Hamp et al. — The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Projections of Earth’s technosphere. I. Scenario modeling, worldbuilding, and overview of remotely detectable technosignatures
Haqq-Misra et al. — preprint
Chemical Complexity and Prevalence of Life in the Universe: A New Method for the Estimation of Key Terms of Drake Equation
Lamza — preprint
Chemical Complexity and Prevalence of Life in the Universe: A New Method for the Estimation of Key Terms of Drake Equation
Lamza — preprint
Prebiotic formation of enantiomeric excess D-amino acids on natural pyrite
Li et al. — Nature Communications
The role of ammonia in the distribution of volatiles in the primordial hydrosphere of Europa
Moulanier et al. — preprint
Magnetometric remote sensing of Earth and planetary oceans
Tyler et al. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Potential for life to exist and be detected on Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarfs
Whyte et al. — preprint
Self-sustaining living habitats in extraterrestrial environments
Wordsworth et al. — Astrobiology
Decoding Geometric Properties in Non-Random Data from First Information-Theoretic Principles
Zenil et al. — preprint
Astrophysics
The challenge of detecting remote spectroscopic signatures from radionuclides
Haqq-Misra et al. — preprint
Increased Surface Temperatures of Habitable White Dwarf Worlds Relative to Main-Sequence Exoplanets
Shields et al. — preprint
Detectability of biosignatures in warm, water-rich atmospheres
Taysum et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Frequent transitions in self-assembly across the evolution of a central metabolic enzyme
Sendker et al. — Nature Communications
Chemistry
Alternative Solvents for Life: Framework for Evaluation, Current Status, and Future Research
Bains et al. — Astrobiology
Tracing the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone with Sulfur Chemistry
Jordan et al. — preprint
RNA World with Inhibitors
Synak et al. — Entropy
Prebiotic Nucleoside Phosphorylation in a Simulated Deep-Sea Supercritical Carbon Dioxide–Water Two-Phase Environment
Tagawa et al. — Astrobiology
Geosciences
Hematite U-Pb dating of Snowball Earth meltwater events
Courtney-Davies et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Synthesis and Stability of Biomolecules in C–H–O–N Fluids under Earth’s Upper Mantle Conditions
Li et al. — Journal of the American Chemical Society
No paleoclimatic anomalies are associated with the late Eocene extraterrestrial impact events
Wade et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Microbiology
Hybrid adaptation is hampered by Haldane’s sieve
Bautista et al. — Nature Communications
Investigating Polyextremophilic Bacteria in Al Wahbah Crater, Saudi Arabia: A Terrestrial Model for Life on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Dos Santos et al. — Astrobiology
Physics
Beyond Earthly Limits: Protection against Cosmic Radiation through Biological Response Pathways
Sultanova et al. — preprint
Planetary sciences
A dry Venusian interior constrained by atmospheric chemistry
Constantinou et al. — Nature Astronomy
Mineral alteration in water-saturated liquid CO2 on early Mars
Hecht et al. — Nature Geoscience
Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion
Yzer et al. — preprint