This week we have 23 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Please note that inclusion of these papers reflects topic, not quality, and that evaluating scientific merit is out of scope for this newsletter.

AI-detection tools (e.g. Pangram) can also be useful when first assessing new publications.

Artificial Life

BFF: Simple explanations for complex phenomena
Knierim et al. — preprint

OpenLife: Toward Open-World Artificial Life with Autonomous LLM Agents
Masumori et al. — preprint

Astrobiology

Viking's Astrobiological Legacy: A Philosophical Framework for Searching for Molecular Biosignatures
Buckner et al. — Astrobiology

NASA Viking Mission: A Perspective of the Labeled Release Biological Experiment on Mars
Calomiris — Astrobiology

Signs and Signatures of Intelligence
DeMarines — preprint

Prospects for Panspermia via Interstellar Objects like 3I/ATLAS
Kakharov et al. — preprint

The Role of Chemical Sensors, Microfluidics, and Analytical Microsystems in Future Mars Exploration
Kounaves et al. — Astrobiology

Substrate-Agnostic 3x: Biosignatures, Technosignatures, Ecologies
Likavčan — preprint

Life Detection in the Martian Subsurface: Advancements in Microbial Metabolic Research Under Mars Laboratory and Field-Analog Conditions since Viking
Nisson et al. — Astrobiology

Micron-Scale Technosignatures: How a Cubic Metre of Lunar Regolith May Begin to Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy
Pinault et al. — preprint

The Possible Aqueous Origins of Manganese Alteration Minerals in the Máaz Formation of Jezero Crater
Sinclair et al. — Astrobiology

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with the SKA
Tremblay et al. — preprint

The Viking's 50 Year Landing Anniversary Astrobiology Special Collection: Reexamining the Revolutionary Impact of Viking on Mars Exploration
Wilhelm et al. — Astrobiology

Astrobiology and the People Who Study It: Stories of Science and Self
Zellner

Astrochemistry

Chemical Divergence and Water Depletion: Gas Properties of Evolved Upper Scorpius Disks Revealed by JWST/MIRI
Raul et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Nautilus Space Observatory: The Evolution of Planets and their Atmospheres
Pascucci et al. — preprint

A Covariance-Aware Framework for Spatially Resolved Exoplanet Biosignature Inference with the Solar Gravitational Lens
Turyshev — preprint

Computational Biology

Ecological constraints to mirror life
Pla-Mauri et al. — preprint

Geoscience

Impact heating and the hidden Hadean
Johnson et al. — Science

Microbiology

Life beyond earth: microbial survival and immune health in space
Zaccaria — Radboud University Press

Planetary Sciences

Stellar Forcing of (exo)Planetary Environments
Alvarado-Gómez et al. — preprint

Investigating the Formation Conditions of Evaporitic Chloride, Carbonate, and Sulfate Paragenetic Assemblages on Early Mars
Das et al. — preprint

Coupled atmospHere Interior modeL Intercomparison (CHILI). I. Evolutionary Modelling -- Primordial Magma Oceans of Earth and Venus
Nicholls et al. — preprint