This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!

Artificial Life

The computational inevitability of life: self-replication under resource-bounded nested algorithmic probability
Sarkar — preprint

Astrobiology

Autonomous Mars Rover Module for Soil Sampling and Life Component Analysis
Adhikari et al. — preprint

Climates of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Biosignatures
Bhatnagar et al. — preprint

Setting a polyphasic approach to study Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities as a toolkit for astrobiology
Franco et al. — International Journal of Astrobiology

The Microbial Inhabitants of the Corona Lava Tube: Astrobiological Insights from a Mars Analog Environment
Miller et al. — Astrobiology

Astrochemistry

A detection of sulfur-bearing cyclic hydrocarbons in space
Araki et al. — Nature Astronomy

High-Pressure Torsion-Induced Transformation of Adenosine Monophosphate: Insights into Prebiotic Chemistry of RNA by Astronomical Impacts
Edalati et al. — Astrobiology

Potential metabolic viability on asteroid chemistry
Fisher et al. — Communications Chemistry

Abiotic sugar enantiomers in the CI carbonaceous chondrite Orgueil
Leyva et al. — Nature Communications

Abiotic formation of nitrile precursors to amino acids and nucleobases in interstellar ice analogues
Wang et al. — Chemical Science

Astrophysics

Atmospheric collapse and re-inflation through impacts for terrestrial planets around M dwarfs
August et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

Biochemistry

The Exceptional Solubility of Cyclic Trimetaphosphate in the Presence of Mg2+ and Ca2+
Bachant et al. — Life

A peptide catalyst can replace an essential enzyme in a eukaryotic cell
Podolsky et al. — preprint

Selection for Molecularly Complementary Modules (MCMs) Drives the Origins and Evolution of Pleiofunctional, Epistatic Interactomes (PEIs)
Root-Bernstein — Life

Building Molecules by a Self-Replicator That Catalyzes Acyl Hydrazone Formation
van Esterik et al. — Angewandte Chemie

Biology

Noncanonical genetic markers resolve the pre-GOE emergence of aerobic bacteria in Earth's history
Liao et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Biophysics

Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo
Mishra et al. — Nature Physics

Computational Biology

How Information Evolves: Stability-Driven Assembly and the Emergence of a Natural Genetic Algorithm
Adler — preprint

Mathematical Biology

Can the Timing of the Origin of Life Be Inferred from Trends in the Growth of Organismal Complexity?
Juckett — Life

Microbiology

Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support
Baxter et al. — npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Planetary Sciences

Possible favored Great Oxidation Event scenario on exoplanets around M-Stars with the example of TRAPPIST-1e
Jaziri et al. — preprint

Stratigraphy of Carbonate‐Bearing Rocks at the Margin of Jezero Crater, Mars: Evidence for Shoreline Processes?
Jones et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Europa’s ice thickness and subsurface structure characterized by the Juno microwave radiometer
Levin et al. — Nature Astronomy

Synthetic Biology

Programming Nonlinear Interfacial Mechanics of Synthetic Cells: Lipid Geometry and DNA Nanostructures
Masuda et al. — preprint