This week we have 31 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

Energy-Limited Radiolytic Habitability in the Shallow Martian Subsurface: Implications for ExoMars Rosalind Franklin and Tianwen-3
Atri — preprint

Ecophysiological study of green microalgae isolated from the grit crust of the Atacama Desert
Glaser et al. — Journal of Phycology

An Agnostic Machine Learning Model of Photosynthetic Habitability
Gray et al. — preprint

Viking in the History and Future of Astrobiology Programs
Grinspoon et al. — Astrobiology

Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST
Li et al. — preprint

Introduction to the Special Collection: Early Earth Environments and the Origins of Life
Lyons et al. — Astrobiology

Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, Mars
Murphy et al. — Science Advances

Indigenizing the Drake Equation: how Indigenous methods can help us understand life in the Milky Way Galaxy
Neilson — preprint

Can Pareto Optimality Be Evidence of Life?
Rodgers et al. — Astrobiology

Astrobiology in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Scharf — Astrobiology

20 Years Later: The ALH 84001 Debate in Context with Viking's Results. Lessons Learned and Portals Opened
Steele — Astrobiology

Critical Evaluation of Studies Alleging Evidence for Technosignatures in the POSS1-E Photographic Plates
Watters et al. — preprint

Astrobiology and the People Who Study It: Stories of Science and Self
Zellner

Dynamic controls on subsurface water chemistry and habitability on icy moons
Zhang et al. — The Innovation

Experimental Evidence for a Microbial Origin of Reduction Spots in Red Beds on Earth-and Mars?
Zielinska et al. — Astrobiology

Astrochemistry

Theoretical determination of the binding energies of methanol and related species onto amorphous solid water ice
Ahmad et al. — preprint

Chemical Complexity in the Early Stages of Star Formation in the SKAO Era
Bianchi et al. — preprint

Probing the ubiquity of complex ices in protostars with JWST: the first systematic quantification of weak ice bands between 6.8 and 7.9 micron
Chen et al. — preprint

Charge transfer from ammonia neutralizes propylene oxide cations: Implications for the astrochemistry of chiral molecules
Maheshwari et al. — preprint

Unveiling Complex Chemistry in Planet-forming Disks with the SKAO
Podio et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Nautilus: Fast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of GKM Stellar Flares and Their Implications for Planetary Habitability
Lin et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Metal-catalyzed phosphorylation by phosphite at the origin of bioenergetics
Hoffmann et al. — preprint

Periodic Temperature Fluctuations as an Energy Source for RNA Evolution
Mayer — Life

Chemistry

Hierarchical models for large chemical reaction networks
Unterberger et al. — preprint

An introduction to random rule-based chemical networks
Unterberger — preprint

Computational Biology

Context without contact: top–down information flow from shared modulation in uncoupled prebiotic systems
Blanco — Royal Society Open Science

Geoscience

Hydrothermal origin of metabolic phosphorylation
Schlikker et al. — preprint

Microbiology

The Maximum Growth Temperature for Eukaryotes Is Thermodynamically Driven but Ecologically Contingent
Bains — Life

Fifty Years after Viking: The Promise of Solar System Microbiology and Microbial Ecology
Cockell — Astrobiology

Exploring thylakoid emergence: evolution of membrane biogenesis and photosystem II assembly in early‐diverging cyanobacteria
Hambücken et al. — New Phytologist

Coordinated proteome-scale remodeling underlies polyextremophilic survival in Antarctic cryo-hypersaline brines
Pandey et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology