OoL digest — July 15 edition
This week we have 21 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Unveiling Challenging Microbial Fossil Biosignatures from Rio Tinto with Micro-to-Nanoscale Chemical and Ultrastructural Imaging
Maldanis et al. — Astrobiology
The Preservation and Spectral Detection of Historic Museum Specimen Microbial Mat Biosignatures Within Martian Dust: Lessons Learned for Mars Exploration and Sample Return
Preston et al. — Astrobiology
Variable and Large Losses of Diagnostic Biomarkers After Simulated Cosmic Radiation Exposure in Clay- and Carbonate-Rich Mars Analog Samples
Roussel et al. — Astrobiology
Microbial Ecology of an Arctic Travertine Geothermal Spring: Implications for Biosignature Preservation and Astrobiology
Ugwuanyi et al. — Astrobiology
A novel metric for assessing climatological surface habitability
Woodward et al. — preprint
Astrophysics
Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS
Cadieux et al. — preprint
Biophysics
The Origin and Evolution of Information Handling
López-Díaz et al. — preprint
Chemistry
Chemical reservoir computation in a self-organizing reaction network
Baltussen et al. — Nature
Photochemical synthesis of natural membrane lipids in artificial and living cells
Ji et al. — preprint
A roadmap towards the synthesis of Life
Kriebisch et al. — preprint
Water-Ice Microstructures and Hydration States of Acridinium Iodide Studied by Phosphorescence Spectroscopy
Liu et al. — Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Amino acid analogues provide multiple plausible pathways to prebiotic peptides
Zhang et al. — Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Geology
Abiotic synthesis of graphitic carbons in the Eoarchean Saglek-Hebron metasedimentary rocks
Guo et al. — Nature Communications
Microbiology
Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor
Appler et al. — preprint
Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life
Lyons et al. — Nature Reviews Microbiology
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
Moody et al. — Nature Ecology & Evolution
Planetary sciences
Fe-rich X-ray amorphous material records past climate and persistence of water on Mars
Feldman et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Magnesium silicate chimneys at the Strytan hydrothermal field, Iceland, as analogues for prebiotic chemistry at alkaline submarine hydrothermal vents on the early Earth
Gutiérrez-Ariza et al. — Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
The nucleosynthetic fingerprint of the outermost protoplanetary disk and early Solar System dynamics
van Kooten et al. — Science Advances
Recurrent planetesimal formation in an outer part of the early solar system
Neumann et al. — Scientific Reports
Geophysical Observations of the 24 September 2023 OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Re-Entry
Silber et al. — preprint