OoL digest — July 1st edition
This week we have 21 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
Arcas et al. — preprint
Outsourcing Control Requires Control Complexity
Langer et al. — Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Sustaining Hydrothermal Circulation With Gravity Relevant to Ocean Worlds
Fisher et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Predicting photosynthetic structures using thermodynamics and machine learning
Gray et al. — preprint
The atmosphere: a transport medium or an active microbial ecosystem?
Lappan et al. — The ISME Journal
Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS-REx
Lauretta et al. — Meteoritics & Planetary Science
Radio Observations as an Extrasolar Planet Discovery and Characterization: Interior Structure and Habitability
Lazio — preprint
Rapid diagenesis and microbial biosignature degradation in spring carbonates from Crystal Geyser, Utah, U.S.A.
Lima-Zaloumis et al. — Journal of Sedimentary Research
Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures
Schwieterman et al. — The Astrophysical Journal
An estimate of the impact rate on Mars from statistics of very-high-frequency marsquakes
Zenhäusern et al. — Nature Astronomy
Astrophysics
Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS
Cadieux et al. — preprint
A Census of Sun’s Ancestors and their Contributions to the Solar System Chemical Composition
Fiore et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity
Crockett et al. — Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Slow freeze-thaw cycles enhanced hybridization of kilobase DNA with long complementary sticky ends
Noda et al. — ChemSystemsChem
An experimental and numerical model of the behavior of cytosine in aqueous solution under gamma radiation. Relevance in prebiotic chemistry
Paredes-Arriaga et al. — Heliyon
Site-specific RNA methylation by a methyltransferase ribozyme
Scheitl et al. — Nature
Biophysics
Metabolically-driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast
Narayanasamy et al. — preprint
Chemistry
Open-Ended versus bounded evolution: Mineral evolution as a case study
Hazen et al. — PNAS Nexus
Planetary sciences
Laboratory characterization of hydrothermally processed oligopeptides in ice grains emitted by Enceladus and Europa
Khawaja et al. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Characterizing Liquid Water in Deep Martian Aquifers: A Seismo-Electric Approach
Roth et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Chemical Evolution of Complex Organic Molecules in Turbulent Protoplanetary Disks: Effect of stochastic UV irradiation
Suzuki et al. — preprint