This week we have 26 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Living Worlds Community Working Group: The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Arney et al. — preprint

Overestimated Pressure Broadening Misleads Model Spectra in Cool M Dwarf Stars
Glidden et al. — preprint

Habitable Worlds Observatory Living Worlds Working Group: Surface Biosignatures on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Parenteau et al. — preprint

Ultraviolet observations of atmospheric escape in exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Santos et al. — Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems

Two temperate Earth- and Neptune-sized planets orbiting fully convective M dwarfs
Scott et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Modeling the Effect of C/O Ratio on Complex Carbon Chemistry in Cold Molecular Clouds
Byrne et al. — preprint

High-energy astrochemistry in the molecular interstellar medium
Gaches et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

HOPS-288: A Laboratory for Complex Organics in Proto-multiple Systems
Hsu et al. — preprint

Time-dependent chemical evolution during cloud formation: H$_2$-regulated chemistry in diffuse molecular cloud
Komichi et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Anatomy of Empirical Transit Spectra of Mars based on TGO/NOMAD
Aoki et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Origins of Life: Chemistry and Evolution
Matange et al. — preprint

Biophysics

Emergence of diverse ligase reactivities from a single RNA evolution experiment
Biswas et al. — preprint

Chemistry

The emergence of chirality in time and space: transient asymmetry in supramolecular polymers triggered by visible light
Chak et al. — preprint

Hierarchical Self-Assembly in Minimalistic Diacetylenes: From Coacervates to Fibers
Jawla et al. — preprint

Geoscience

Chemosynthetic microbial communities formed wrinkle structures in ancient turbidites
Martindale et al. — Geology

Microbiology

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells
Archibald — Nature

Evolutionary stasis and homogeneous selection structure microbial communities in the deep subseafloor sedimentary biosphere
Hoshino et al. — preprint

Microgravity reshapes bacteriophage–host coevolution aboard the International Space Station
Huss et al. — PLOS Biology

Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
Tobiasson et al. — Nature

Physics

Electric Fields Can Assist Prebiotic Reactivity on Hydrogen Cyanide Surfaces
Cappelletti et al. — ACS Central Science

Crossing the Functional Desert: Critical Cascades and a Feasibility Transition for the Emergence of Life
Wilkerson — preprint

Planetary Sciences

Scarp-fronted deposits record the highest water level in Mars’ Valles Marineris
Argadestya et al. — npj Space Exploration

Stellar control on atmospheric carbon chemistry, CO runaway, and organic synthesis on lifeless Earth-like planets
Endo et al. — preprint

Limit cycles and the climate history of Mars
Haqq-Misra — preprint

Direct detection of hydrogen reveals a new macroscopic crustal water reservoir on early Mars
Naver et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

A Gene-Free Minimal System for Synthetic Quorum Sensing in Protocell Communities
Kumar et al. — preprint