OoL digest — January 27
This week we have 15 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Waste Heat and Habitability: Constraints from Technological Energy Consumption
Balbi et al. — Astrobiology
Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like methanogens
Butturini et al. — preprint
Production of Organic Precursors via Meteoritic Impacts and Its Implications for Prebiotic Inventory of Early Planetary Surfaces
Farcy et al. — Astrobiology
Sampling Mars: Geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission
Herd et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The Role of Atmospheric Composition in Defining the Habitable Zone Limits and Supporting E. coli Growth
Kuzucan et al. — Life
Resilience of Chlorella vulgaris to Simulated Atmospheric Gas Compositions of Mars, Jupiter, and Titan
Likai et al. — Life
Mars Sample Return: From collection to curation of samples from a habitable world
McCubbin et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Wave ripples formed in ancient, ice-free lakes in Gale crater, Mars
Mondro et al. — Science Advances
Inorganic interpretation of luminescent materials encountered by the Perseverance rover on Mars
Scheller et al. — Science Advances
Impacts of UV Radiation from an AGN on Planetary Atmospheres and Consequences for Galactic Habitability
Sippy et al. — preprint
Mathematical biology
The Origin(s) of LUCA: Computer Simulation of a New Theory
Tang et al. — Life
Microbiology
The limit of life at extremely low water activity: Lithium-concentration ponds in a solar saltern (Salar de Atacama, Chile)
Demergasso et al. — preprint
Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: Transitions between unicellularity and facultative differentiated multicellularity
Isaksson et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau
Parro et al. — Nature Communications
Unveiling a novel exopolysaccharide produced by Pseudomonas alcaligenes Med1 isolated from a Chilean hot spring as biotechnological additive
Sarkar et al. — Scientific Reports