This week we have 22 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

Cold-Water CO2 Geysers as Ocean World Plume Analogs: Investigation of Habitability Indicators in Crystal and Champagne Geysers Pre- and Posteruption
Cable et al. — Astrobiology

Novel Physics of Escaping Secondary Atmospheres May Shape the Cosmic Shoreline
Chatterjee et al. — The Astrophysical Journal

Undetected Past Contacts with Technological Species: Implications for Technosignature Science
Grimaldi — The Astronomical Journal

Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE) IV: Analyzing CO2 Detections in the Near-IR to Determine the Long-Wavelength Cut-off for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph
Hagee et al. — preprint

Searching for extraterrestrial life advances terrestrial sustainability
Howells et al. — Nature Communications

Conceptual challenges in astrobiological analog environments and paths toward resolution
Meurer et al. — preprint

Habitable Zones Around Massive Stars: From the Main Sequence to Supergiants
Nandal et al. — preprint

Bennu and Ryugu constituents from samples IR analyses and potential source of terrestrial planets’ ingredients
Pilorget et al. — Nature Communications

The Interplanetary Habitable Zone
Scharf — preprint

Carbonated ultramafic igneous rocks in Jezero crater, Mars
Williford et al. — Science

Astrochemistry

Formation and Survival of Complex Organic Molecules in the Jovian Circumplanetary Disk
Mousis et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand
Gianni et al. — Science

Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses
Michalik et al. — Nature Communications

Fuel-driven catalytic molecular templating
Mitra et al. — preprint

Emergence of a potentially ancestral ATP-synthesizing activity under prebiotic amino acid constraints
Yagi et al. — preprint

Biophysics

Delay-facilitated self-assembly in compartmentalized systems
Angerpointner et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Asgard archaeal origin of microtubules
Löwe et al. — preprint

Ribose Accumulation In Borate-rich Prebiotic Environments
Takahashi et al. — Astrobiology

Microbiology

Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor
Appler et al. — Nature

Molecular clock evidence for an Archean diversification of heme-copper oxygen reductase enzymes
Husain et al. — Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

On the nature of the earliest known lifeforms
Kanaparthi et al. — eLife

Planetary Sciences

Upper atmosphere dynamics and drivers of volatiles loss from terrestrial-type (exo)planets
Kubyshkina et al. — preprint