This week we have 24 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.

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Astrobiology

An organics-forward approach to searching for life on Mars
Buckner et al. — Nature Communications

Mars, a Post-Habitable Planet?
Crismani et al. — preprint

Development and demonstration of a Modular Astrobiological Experiments (MAEx) payload for autonomous biological monitoring in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Jangir et al. — preprint

Electrical Properties of Icy World Oceans from Laboratory Measurements
Mahboub et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Astrochemistry

Digging into the Massive Protostar S255IR NIRS3: A Study of Nitrogen-Bearing Molecules and Their Prebiotic Chemistry
Manna et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Exploring Space Weather From Young Solar-like Stars as Windows to Exoplanetary Habitability
Airapetian et al. — preprint

Near UV Stellar Activity and Brightness Fluctuations of the Alpha Centauri AB Star System from Weeks to Decades -- Inputs for Reflected Light Spectroscopy with HWO
Bhattacharyya et al. — preprint

Star-planet interaction in the Proxima system
Osorio et al. — preprint

The unique ability of the Hubble Space Telescope to characterize young exoplanet environments
Rockcliffe et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Bridging two theoretical frameworks of autocatalysis: RAF sets and stoichiometric autocatalysis
Golnik et al. — preprint

The RNA-First Fallacy: Conflating Evolutionary Ancestry with Prebiotic Primacy
Kahana — Life

Membrane information organization at the origin of life: From interfaces to informational bodies
Sadat Rafiei et al. — BioSystems

Spatial confinement and boundary constraints governing biological chirality: a simulation study
Tozzi — preprint

Chemistry

Vortex-guided chirality selection in an organic single crystal
Okada et al. — preprint

Shadow of a Shadow: Ferrocyanide and Nitroprusside as Sunscreens for Photosensitive Prebiotic Molecules
Rossmanith et al. — Life

Stereoselective Phosphorylation of d-Ribose as a Driver of Life's Homochirality
Subbotin et al. — Life

Geoscience

Subduction modulated the long-term oxygenation of Earth’s surface
Shi et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Microbiology

Microbial growth rates captured using Raman-SIP reveal a highly active subsurface biosphere fueled by serpentinization
Kashyap et al. — Nature Communications

Palaeontology

Assessing the Earliest Evidence for Life in the Geologic and Genomic Records
Bell et al. — Astrobiology

Planetary Sciences

Asteroid sample return missions are critical for understanding our Solar System
Bates — Nature Communications

JWST-DECO: The Impact of Accretion on Mid-Infrared Observable Water in Planet-forming Disks
Calahan et al. — preprint

Titan’s organic world
De Batz De Trenquelléon — Nature Communications

Interior-Atmosphere Coupling on TRAPPIST-1 f, g, and h: Cryovolcanic Water Exospheres and Infrared Detectability
Kleisioti et al. — preprint

Hematite is a mineralogical marker of ancient climate change on Mars
Szczerba et al. — Science