OoL digest — July 8 edition
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Source regions of carbonaceous meteorites and NEOs
Brož et al. — preprint
The Solar System could have formed in a low-viscosity disc: A dynamical study from giant planet migration to the Nice model
Griveaud et al. — preprint
The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life: implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations
Stern et al. — Scientific Reports
Synthesis of 13C-depleted organic matter from CO in a reducing early Martian atmosphere
Ueno et al. — Nature Geoscience
Adaptive Habitability of Exoplanets: Thriving Under Extreme Environmental Change
Weintraub et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Self-growing protocell models in aqueous two-phase system induced by internal DNA replication reaction
Minagawa et al. — preprint
How Droplets Can Accelerate Reactions─Coacervate Protocells as Catalytic Microcompartments
Smokers et al. — Accounts of Chemical Research
Selective Nonenzymatic Formation of Biologically Common RNA Hairpins
Wu et al. — preprint
Microbiology
Siderite and vivianite as energy sources for the extreme acidophilic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans in the context of mars habitability
Silva et al. — Scientific Reports
Surviving extreme radiation
Swamy et al. — eLife
Planetary sciences
Sustaining Hydrothermal Circulation With Gravity Relevant to Ocean Worlds
Fisher et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Atmospheric oxidation drove climate change on Noachian Mars
Liu et al. — Nature Communications
Water Evolution & Inventories of Super-Earths Orbiting Late M-Dwarfs
Moore et al. — preprint
Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras
Stockey et al. — Nature Geoscience
Origin of Asteroid (101955) Bennu and its Connection to the New Polana Family
Takir et al. — preprint
Towards characterising rocky worlds: Trends in chemical make-ups of M dwarfs versus GK dwarfs
Wang et al. — preprint