OoL digest — June 10 edition
This week we have 20 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Toward Artificial Open-Ended Evolution within Lenia using Quality-Diversity
Faldor et al. — preprint
Emergent digital bio-computation through spatial diffusion and engineered bacteria
Fedorec et al. — Nature Communications
Astrobiology
Novel Atmospheric Dynamics Shape Inner Edge of Habitable Zone Around White Dwarfs
Zhan et al. — preprint
Astrophysics
Abundant hydrocarbons in the disk around a very-low-mass star
Arabhavi et al. — Science
Stellar Characterization and Chemical Abundances of Exoplanet Hosting M dwarfs from APOGEE Spectra: Future JWST Targets
Melo et al. — preprint
Enhanced formation of interstellar complex organic molecules on carbon monoxide ice
Molpeceres et al. — preprint
Monte Carlo simulation of UV-driven synthesis of complex organic molecules on icy grain surfaces
Ochiai et al. — preprint
Venus as an Exoplanet: I. An Initial Exploration of the 3-D Energy Balance for a CO$_{2}$ Exoplanetary Atmosphere Around an M-Dwarf Star
Parkinson et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Ancestral structure prediction reveals the conformational impact of the RuBisCO small subunit across time
Amritkar et al. — preprint
Biology
Polyextremophile engineering: a review of organisms that push the limits of life
Caro-Astorga et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology
Integrating phylogenies into single-cell RNA sequencing analysis allows comparisons across species, genes, and cells
Church et al. — PLOS Biology
Shifts in evolutionary lability underlie independent gains and losses of root-nodule symbiosis in a single clade of plants
Kates et al. — Nature Communications
Chemistry
Prebiotic chemical reactivity in solution with quantum accuracy and microsecond sampling using neural network potentials
Benayad et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nonenzymatic Hydration of Phosphoenolpyruvate: General Conditions for Hydration in Protometabolism by Searching Across Pathways
Zimmermann et al. — preprint
Physics
The Origin of Information Handling
López-Díaz et al. — preprint
Planetary sciences
Trends in estuarine pyrite formation point to an alternative model for Paleozoic pyrite burial
Hantsoo et al. — Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Small variations in ice composition and layer thickness explain bright reflections below martian polar cap without liquid water
Lalich et al. — Science Advances
Quantum Tunneling Could Enable Proton Transfer Reactions on Titan
Longo et al. — preprint
Tectonic trigger to the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic: The early Cambrian Sinsk event
Myrow et al. — Science Advances
Discovery of modern living intertidal stromatolites on Sheybarah Island, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia
Vahrenkamp et al. — Geology