This week we have 18 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

Photosynthetic exergy I. Thermodynamic limits for habitable-zone planets
Covone et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Delivery of complex organic molecules to the system of Jupiter
Benest Couzinou et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Space ionizing radiation triggers the formation of peptides and organophosphates on olivine surfaces
Ding et al. — Nature Communications

Experimental and computational studies of the hydrogenation of carbon disulfide (CS2) on ice analogues
Nguyen et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

The observation of Earth-like exoplanets with ground-based telescopes and a shared orbiting starshade
Soliman et al. — Nature Astronomy

Biochemistry

Stringent selection on kinetics of condensation reactions: early steps in chemical evolution
Capera-Aragones et al. — Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Sequence motif dynamics in RNA pools
Harth-Kitzerow et al. — Physical Review E

The selfish ribosome
Krupovic et al. — preprint

A symbiotic origin of the ribosome?
Lynch et al. — PNAS Nexus

Distinguishing life from non-life via molecular frontier orbital energy gaps
Ramírez-Colón et al. — preprint

Template-Based Catalysis and the Emergence of Collectively Autocatalytic Systems
Serra et al. — Entropy

From peptides to DNA: All required steps can be catalyzed
Shi et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Biophysics

Crystallization-driven template autocatalysis induces mirror symmetry breaking and amplification
Wu et al. — Nature Communications

Microbiology

Flexible paths to multicellularity
Lotharukpong et al. — Nature

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate
Ros-Rocher et al. — Nature

Exploring the Habitability of the Outer Solar System Icy Moons for the Extremotolerant Yeast Rhodotorula frigidalcoholis
Zaccaria et al. — Environmental Microbiology

Physics

Metrology of Complexity and Implications for the Study of the Emergence of Life
Walker — preprint

Planetary Sciences

Experimental and numerical modeling of liposome congregation in meteorite craters of Early Earth
Subbotin et al. — preprint