This week we have 18 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.

Astrobiology

Regolith as a Refuge: Differential Survival of Bacteriophage Qβ in Mars Analog Environments
Arribas Tiemblo et al. — Astrobiology

Reflections of Life: Distinguishing Living from Nonliving Worlds with Complexity Metrics
Bartlett et al. — The Astronomical Journal

Nanophase Goethite as a Promising Target in the Search for Past Life on Mars
Djokic et al. — Astrobiology

Exploring TRAPPIST-1 Climate States with an Energy Balance Model
Haqq-Misra — preprint

Ultraviolet Radiation Effects on the Optical Properties of Water-Dominated Exoplanet Hazes
Huseby et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Earth as a transiting exoplanet - SPIRou observation of Earth near-IR transmission spectrum during the November 19, 2021 lunar eclipse
Arnold et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics

Exploring Exoplanets with Interferometry
Quanz et al.

Biochemistry

Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis
Bernabeu et al. — Nature

Terrestrial Abiotic Synthesis of Simple Precursor Molecules Starting from Two Approaches: The Universality of Carbon Reduction
Camprubi et al. — Astrobiology

A GTP synthase ribozyme with increased GTP turnover
Han et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins
Li et al. — Nature

Understanding nature's selection of genetic languages
Patel — preprint

Experimental evolution toward extinction in a molecular host–parasite system
Yukawa et al. — Molecular Biology and Evolution

Biology

Domains of life identified through genetic codes
Di Giulio — BioSystems

Planetary Sciences

Widespread Impact‐Induced Crustal Permeability on the Early Earth
Alexander et al. — AGU Advances

An 800-Million-Year-Old Impact Shower on the Terrestrial Planets from the Breakup of the Eulalia Parent Body
Bottke et al. — preprint

Titan's Resources and their Utilization
Nixon et al. — preprint

A long-lived impact-generated hydrothermal system at the Chicxulub impact structure
Pickersgill et al. — Communications Earth & Environment