OoL digest — March 31
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Spectroscopic Protocol for Biosignature Detection: Arctic Ice Samples as Analogs for Icy Moons
Calapez et al. — Astrobiology
Interpretable Machine Learning Biosignature Detection From Ocean Worlds Analogue CO2 Isotopologue Data
Clough et al. — Earth and Space Science
Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid
Duzdevich et al. — Astrobiology
Long-chain alkanes preserved in a Martian mudstone
Freissinet et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Recovery of Lipid Biomarkers in Hot Spring Digitate Silica Sinter as Analogs for Potential Biosignatures on Mars: Results from Laboratory and Flight-Like Experiments
Millan et al. — Astrobiology
Traces of Bacterial Contribution to Calcite Weathering Detected by Statistical Characterizations of Surface Microtopography
Stigliano et al. — Astrobiology
Biochemistry
The Origin of Life in the Early Continental Crust: A Comprehensive Model
Schreiber — Life
Prebiotic Resource Constraints and the Origin of Life: A Linear Logic Framework
Tozzi — preprint
Biology
Energy-ordered resource stratification as an agnostic signature of life
Goyal et al. — Nature Communications
Mathematical biology
The Abiogenesis Timescale
Whitmire — preprint
Physics
Computational capacity of life in relation to the universe
Kurian — Science Advances
The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition
Muro et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Planetary sciences
Solidification of Earth’s mantle led inevitably to a basal magma ocean
Boukaré et al. — Nature
Tectonics and Surface Environments on Early Earth
Korenaga — Astrobiology
Humidity Enhancement in Dry Permafrost: The Effects of Temperature Cycles on Habitability
Mellon et al. — Astrobiology
Formation of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes from Rings of Planetesimals
Shibata et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters