OoL digest — March 30
This week we have 24 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Retrieving the Red Edge on Earth-like Planets with Heterogeneous Clouds and Surfaces
Burr et al. — preprint
Biomarkers on the Icy Jovian Moons: Can Europa Also Provide Insights into Life's Origin?
Chela-Flores et al. — Life
Ecological modelling of hycean worlds
Cooke et al. — preprint
Flare-driven habitability: Expanding life's potential around low-mass stars
Gao et al. — The Innovation
From Space Dust to Protocells: Micrometeorites in Early Cellular Evolution
Gözen — Astrobiology
Subsurface ocean salinity and dissipation rate inferred from Enceladus ice shell morphology
Kang et al. — preprint
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Koga et al. — Nature Astronomy
The SPHEREx Ices Investigation: An Overview
Melnick et al. — preprint
Gypsum as a repository of extinct and extant biosignatures at Salar de Pajonales, northern Chile
Tebes-Cayo et al. — Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
On the importance of laboratory experiments for interpreting exoplanet observations
Thompson — Astrophysics and Space Science
Identifying Surface Degeneracies in Single-Visit Reflected Light Observations of Modern Earth using the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Zelakiewicz et al. — preprint
Astrochemistry
First Detection of the Glycine Isomer Glycolamide in Hot Molecular Core
Duan et al. — preprint
Astrophysics
Three outstanding physical questions for K2-18 b and other temperate sub-Neptunes
Tsai et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Amino Acids as Molecular Linchpins in the Fundamental Prebiotic Processes of RNA Copying and Vesicle Formation
Bandyopadhyay et al. — Astrobiology
Antagonistic effects of amino acids support abiotic nano-environments in clay
Bezaly et al. — Scientific Reports
Stability and Reactivity of Alternative Nucleobases in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid
Huang et al. — Molecules
The Free-Market Algorithm: Self-Organizing Optimization for Open-Ended Complex Systems
Jaraiz — preprint
Chemical Routes to Primitive Membranes: Prebiotic Lipid Formation at the Origin of Life
Shvetsova et al. — Life
The Formose Reaction with SO2: A Computational Study
Sisson et al. — Life
On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity
Sohl et al.
Prebiotic oligomerization of amino acids: A step in molecular evolution toward biological complexity
Vargas-García et al. — BioSystems
Microbiology
Redox distribution of Asgard archaea and co-occurring taxa in microbial mats from an early Proterozoic ecosystem analog
Gutierrez-Preciado et al. — preprint
Planetary Sciences
Interaction between vegetation and Snowball phases in the late Proterozoic Earth
Bisesi et al. — preprint
Isotopic Signature of Organic Molecules from Beyond the Solar System: An Enriched Methane D/H Ratio in the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
Roth et al. — preprint