This week we have 27 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

The Key to Unlocking Exoplanet Biosignatures: a UK-led IR Spectrograph for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph
Biller et al. — preprint

Atmospheric Escape Rates from Mars - If it Orbited an Old M-Dwarf Star
Brain et al. — preprint

Nanopore Sequencing: A Way to Explore Life's Origins
Deamer — Astrobiology

Masses of Potentially Habitable Planets Characterized by the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Gary et al. — preprint

The ocean worlds science case for the Pollux spectropolarimeter
Hue et al. — preprint

Growth of microorganisms in a Martian regolith simulant at reduced water activity
Raghavendra et al. — Scientific Reports

Islands of Electromagnetic Tranquility in Our Galactic Core and Little Red Dots that Shelter Molecules and Prebiotic Chemistry
Ruffini et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Oxygenated False Positive Biosignatures in Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
Seavey et al. — preprint

Atmospheric Collapse and Habitability on Tidally-Locked Exoplanets
Taniguchi et al. — preprint

Searching for Life-As-We-Don't-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory for Exoplanet Life Detection
Walker et al. — preprint

Spectral Decomposition Reveals Surface Processes on Europa
Yoffe et al. — preprint

Icelandic Hot Springs as a Prebiotic Analog: Wet-Dry Cycling Effects on the Stability of Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
Šimonis et al. — Astrobiology

Astrochemistry

Hydrocarbon complexity and photochemical shielding of prebiotic feedstock molecules in exoplanet atmospheres
Braam et al. — Icarus

A Direct View of the Chemical Properties of Water from Another Planetary System: Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS
Manzano et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Modularity, ecology, and theoretical evolution of the ribozyme body plan
Bachelet — preprint

Computational Biology

Evolution of Pre-Genetic Semantic Information in Protocells Under Variable Inheritance Fidelity
Carr — BioSystems

Geoscience

Chemosynthetic microbial communities formed wrinkle structures in ancient turbidites
Martindale et al. — Geology

Mathematical Biology

Thermodynamic ontogeny: The emergence of persistence and complexity in pre-genetic chemical systems
Magro — BioSystems

Microbiology

Physicochemical controls on ancient carbon assimilation into ecosystem biomass in shallow-water hydrothermal systems
Maak et al. — Communications Earth & Environment

Methanothermococcus jasoni sp. nov., a novel thermophilic methanogen from subseafloor hydrothermal vent fluids of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Rizzo et al. — International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Planetary Sciences

The Fate of Frozen Carbonated Water at Europa-like Conditions
Chandra et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
Cordiner et al. — preprint

Exoplanets synchronization in the habitable zone: Learning from Venus' retrograde rotation
Ferraz-Mello — The Astronomical Journal

Global abiotic Sulfur cycling on Earth-like terrestrial planets
Rianço-Silva et al. — Icarus

The Response of Planetary Atmospheres to the Impact of Icy Comets III: Impact Driven Atmospheric Escape
Sainsbury-Martinez et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Light-directed evolution of dynamic, multi-state, and computational protein functionalities
Gligorovski et al. — Cell

Impact of retroactivity on information flows in engineered synthetic biological circuits
Moirangthem et al. — preprint