OoL digest — March 6 edition
This week we have 7 new preprints and 13 papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
On the Open-Endedness of Detecting Open-Endedness
Stepney et al. – Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Boron as a Hypothetical Participant in the Prebiological Enantiomeric Enrichment
Franco et al. – Astrobiology
Astrobiologists train an AI to find life on Mars
Heidt – Nature
Land Fraction Diversity on Earth-like Planets and Implications for Their Habitability
Höning et al. – Astrobiology
Observing M Dwarfs UV and optical flares from a CubeSat and their implications for exoplanets habitability
Poyatos et al. – preprint
Quantifying the Bioavailable Energy in an Ancient Hydrothermal Vent on Mars and a Modern Earth-Based Analog
Rucker et al. – Astrobiology
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Planetary Characteristics
Sandora et al. – Universe
New models of reflection spectra for terrestrial exoplanets: Present and prebiotic Earth orbiting around stars of different spectral types
Singla et al. – preprint
Orbit-to-ground framework to decode and predict biosignature patterns in terrestrial analogues
Warren-Rhodes et al. – Nature Astronomy
Biochemistry
How did life begin? One key ingredient is coming into view
Dance – Nature
A Concise and Formal Definition of RAF Sets and the RAF Algorithm
Hordijk – preprint
RNA folding studies inside peptide-rich droplets reveal roles of modified nucleosides at the origin of life
Meyer et al. – preprint
Self-Similar Patterns from Abiotic Decarboxylation Metabolism through Chemically Oscillating Reactions: A Prebiotic Model for the Origin of Life
Papineau et al. – Life
Abiogenesis through gradual evolution of autocatalysis into template-based replication
Pavlinova et al. – FEBS letters
Recent progress in primitive polyester synthesis and membraneless microdroplet assembly
Z. Jia et al. – Biophysics and Physicobiology
Bioinformatics
Order and Complexity in the RNA World
Mayer – Life
Chemistry
Multimodal Techniques for Detecting Alien Life using Assembly Theory and Spectroscopy
Jirasek et al. – preprint
Geoscience
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation
Zhao et al. – Nature Geoscience
Mathematical biology
Why Do Hybrids Turn Down Sex?
Fyon et al. – preprint
Planetary science
Strong depletion of 13C in CO induced by photolysis of CO2 in the Martian atmosphere calculated by a photochemical model
Yoshida et al. – preprint