OoL digest — June 2
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
A Terminology and Quantitative Framework for Assessing the Habitability of Solar System and Extraterrestrial Worlds
Apai et al. — preprint
Challenges and Opportunities in Using Amino Acids to Decode Carbonaceous Chondrite and Asteroid Parent Body Processes
Aponte et al. — Astrobiology
Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Detection of Biogenicity Using Laboratory Specimens of Biologically and Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures in a Controlled Experiment
Arrignon et al. — Astrobiology
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept
Bowkett et al. — Science Robotics
Abiotic Ozone in the Observable Atmospheres of Venus and Venus-like Exoplanets
Calder et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
From CO$_2$- to H$_2$O-dominated atmospheres and back -- How mixed outgassing changes the volatile distribution in magma oceans around M dwarf stars
Carone et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Development and Demonstration of the Portable Acousto‐Optic Spectrometer for Astrobiology in Cave Environments
Chanover et al. — Earth and Space Science
Interpretable Machine Learning Biosignature Detection From Ocean Worlds Analogue CO2 Isotopologue Data
Clough et al. — Earth and Space Science
Grand Theft Moons. Formation of habitable moons around giant planets
Dencs et al. — preprint
Detecting Atmospheric CO2 Trends as Population-Level Signatures for Long-Term Stable Water Oceans and Biotic Activity on Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets
Hansen et al. — preprint
Multiscale astrobiology with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
Kovačević et al. — Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Is Ozone a Reliable Proxy for Molecular Oxygen? II. The impact of N$_2$O on the O$_2$-O$_3$ relationship for Earth-like atmospheres
Kozakis et al. — preprint
Astrobiologically Interesting Stars within 10 parsecs of the Sun
Mello et al. — Astrobiology
Life after death: Europa in the evolving Habitable Zone of a Red Sun
Mullens et al. — preprint
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: The Habitability of Exotic Environments
Sandora — preprint
Ultraviolet and biological effective dose observations at Gale Crater, Mars
Viúdez-Moreiras et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Continuous Habitable Zone Metric for Prioritizing Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets
Ware et al. — preprint
Astrochemistry
Exploring the formation and alteration of organics in ice: experimental insights for astrochemistry and space missions
Hofmann et al. — Earth, Planets and Space
Biochemistry
Trinucleotide substrates under pH–freeze–thaw cycles enable open-ended exponential RNA replication by a polymerase ribozyme
Attwater et al. — Nature Chemistry
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases
Demkiv et al. — Molecular Biology and Evolution
Persistent nitrogenase isotope signatures over two billion years of engineered evolution
Rucker et al. — preprint
Microbiology
Did Iron Suppress Eukaryote Emergence and Early Radiation?
Adam et al. — preprint
Eukaryotic recombinases duplicated after divergence from known asgardarchaeal RadA: implications for the evolution of sex during eukaryogenesis
Matsuo et al. — preprint
Planetary sciences
Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation
Uveges et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Synthetic biology
Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells
Katla et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences