OoL digest — February 3
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Waste Heat and Habitability: Constraints from Technological Energy Consumption
Balbi et al. — preprint
Probing the Limits of Habitability: A Catalog of Rocky Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
Bohl et al. — preprint
Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu
Glavin et al. — Nature Astronomy
Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Luminosity and Mass as Limits to Growth
Haqq-Misra et al. — preprint
Tracing the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone with Sulfur Chemistry
Jordan et al. — Science Advances
Phosphate solubilization by microorganisms in pyroclastic material from Half Moon Island in Antarctica: perspectives for astrobiology
Leal et al. — Polar Biology
Resilience of Chlorella vulgaris to Simulated Atmospheric Gas Compositions of Mars, Jupiter, and Titan
Likai et al. — Life
An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples
McCoy et al. — Nature
Perspectives on Mars Sample Return: A critical resource for planetary science and exploration
McSween et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Prospects for biological evolution on Hycean worlds
Mitchell et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wave ripples formed in ancient, ice-free lakes in Gale crater, Mars
Mondro et al. — Science Advances
Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
Petrić Howe et al. — Nature
Ceres: Organic-Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?
Sarkar et al. — AGU Advances
Pioneers of Origin of Life Studies—Darwin, Oparin, Haldane, Miller, Oró—And the Oldest Known Records of Life
Schopf — Life
Unveiling Hidden Microbial Diversity in Mars 2020 Mission Assembly Cleanrooms with Molecular Insights into the Persistent and Perseverance of Novel Species Defying Metagenome Sequencing
Sivabalan et al. — preprint
COSMIC’s Large-Scale Search for Technosignatures during the VLA sky Survey: Survey Description and First Results
Tremblay et al. — preprint
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
Witze — Nature
Astrochemistry
Hydroxylamine in Astrophysical Ices: IR Spectra and Cosmic Ray-Induced Radiolytic Chemistry
Maté et al. — preprint
Astrophysics
Bioverse: GMT and ELT Direct Imaging and High-Resolution Spectroscopy Assessment $\unicode{x2013}$ Surveying Exo-Earth O$_{\mathrm{2}}$ and Testing the Habitable Zone Oxygen Hypothesis
Hardegree-Ullman et al. — preprint
Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794 - Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf
Nari et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics
Biophysics
Maintaining an autocatalytic reaction system in a protocell: Nonenzymatic RNA templating and the link between replication and metabolism
Sanders et al. — Physical Review E
Life sets off a cascade of machines
Tlusty et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Microbiology
Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis at 7–12 mbar by Methanosarcina barkeri under simulated martian atmospheric conditions
Harris et al. — Scientific Reports
Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: Transitions between unicellularity and facultative differentiated multicellularity
Isaksson et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Planetary sciences
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration
Adams et al. — Nature Geoscience