OoL digest — July 14
This week we have 28 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Assessing Ocean World Habitability with HWO
Cartwright et al. — preprint
Life Detection Knowledge Base: Taxonomy of Potential Biosignatures
Davila et al. — Astrobiology
Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) condensates modulate survival in response to Mars-like stress conditions
Dhage et al. — preprint
Application of a modified commercial laser mass spectrometer as a science analog of the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA)
Garvin et al. — preprint
Thermodynamic Constraints on the Citric Acid Cycle and Related Reactions in Ocean World Interiors
Işık et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Laminae as Potential Biosignatures
Lima-Zaloumis et al. — Astrobiology
Life Detection Knowledge Base: Assessment Criteria for Potential Biosignatures
Parenteau et al. — Astrobiology
SAMPLE -- Stratospheric Altitude Microbiology Probe for Life Existence -- A Method of Collection of Stratospheric Samples Using Balloon-Borne Payload System
Safonova et al. — preprint
The model is the message: Lightweight convolutional autoencoders applied to noisy imaging data for planetary science and astrobiology
Scharf — preprint
Astrophysics
Fluid dynamics of a liquid mirror space telescope
Gabay et al. — preprint
Close-in planet induces flares on its host star
Ilin et al. — preprint
Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape Observations with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Santos et al. — preprint
Ocean Tides on Asynchronously Rotating Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars
Shi et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Peptides at vesicle and mineral prebiotic interfaces
Cherepashuk et al. — preprint
A lipid replicator drives protocell reproduction
Douty et al. — preprint
The RNA Revolution in the Central Molecular Biology Dogma Evolution
Haseltine et al. — International Journal of Molecular Sciences
The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years
Lemke et al. — Nature
Potentially Prebiotic Isocyanide Activation Chemistry Drives RNA Assembly via both Nonenzymatic and Ribozyme-catalyzed Ligation
Zhang et al. — preprint
Biophysics
Chemistry
Origins of building blocks of life: A review
Kitadai et al. — Geoscience Frontiers
Rethinking “Prebiotic Chemistry”
Wong et al. — Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
Geoscience
Geology and Mars analog potential of the <2.7-billion-year-old Miralga impact structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Australia
Brenner et al. — Science Advances
Earth's Hadean crust formed via operation of convergent tectonics
Lu et al. — National Science Review
Quantitative decoding of Ediacaran locomotory trace fossil morphologies: Evidence for the emergence of slender anterior-posterior body profiles
Wang et al. — Geology
Smoothness analyses of trace fossils: expanding quantitative toolkits to unravel bilaterian movement ecology during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition
Wang et al. — Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Microbiology
Microbial N2O reduction in sulfidic waters: Implications for Proterozoic oceans
Buessecker et al. — preprint
Palaeontology
Pulses of ocean acidification at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary
Trudgill et al. — Nature Communications
Planetary Sciences
Was Earth’s Water Acquired Locally during the Earliest Phases of the Solar System Formation?
Boitard-Crépeau et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters