This week we have 28 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

Multiple formation pathways for amino acids in the early Solar System based on carbon and nitrogen isotopes in asteroid Bennu samples
Baczynski et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Active Learning for Planet Habitability Classification under Extreme Class Imbalance
El-Kholy et al. — preprint

Ionic Liquid Biospheres
Seager et al. — Life

Rotational Doppler Cartography of Technosignatures on Unresolved Planets
Takahashi — preprint

The impact of supermassive black holes on exoplanet habitability: I. Spanning the natural mass range
Waas et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Low-energy glycine formation and spectral masking in star-forming regions
Mates-Torres et al. — Communications Chemistry

Hunting for methanol in the water rich, planet forming disk around HL Tau
Soave et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

The Role of Fatty Acid Vesicles in the Origin of Polymer Function
Black — Astrobiology

A Multilamellar Lipid-Polymer Progenitor Can Promote the Assembly of Improbable Functional Polymer Complexes at Life's Origins
Damer et al. — Astrobiology

Molecular Complexity Constrained Early Amino Acid Recruitment into the Genetic Code
Hashmi et al. — Genome Biology and Evolution

Molecular clock evidence for an Archean diversification of heme-copper oxygen reductase enzymes
Husain et al. — Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Compositional memory matters for early molecular systems
Ledoux et al. — preprint

Evolution of error correction through a need for speed
Ravasio et al. — Science

Blunt-force assembly of programmable DNA architectures using π–π stacking
Woloszyn et al. — Nature Communications

Biology

Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history
Rossi et al. — Science Advances

Chemistry

Topological bounds on the dynamical growth rate of chemical reaction networks
Gagrani et al. — preprint

Autocatalytic Cores in Reaction Networks with Explicit Catalysis
Golnik et al. — preprint

Modeling statistics of polypeptides in emissions from smokers near ocean ridges
Intoy et al. — Physical Review E

Microbiology

Microbes from ambient-pressure analogues offer insights into possible life in Europa’s high-pressure subsurface ocean
del Moral et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology

Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling
Köstlbacher et al. — Nature Microbiology

Eukaryogenesis Meets Constructive Neutral Evolution?
Speijer — BioEssays

Extremophile survives the transient pressures associated with impact-induced ejection from Mars
Zhao et al. — PNAS Nexus

Planetary Sciences

Modelling the long-term impacts of artificial warming on the Martian water cycle and surface ice distribution
Braude et al. — preprint

The Evolution in Coma Molecular Composition of Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Across the H$_2$O Sublimation Zone: ALMA Imaging of an H$_2$O-Dominated Coma
Roth et al. — preprint

Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth
Valley et al. — Nature

Synthetic Biology

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
Brixi et al. — Nature

AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?
Callaway — Nature

Energy-precision trade-off in mitotic oscillators revealed by ATP modulation in artificial cells
Wang et al. — preprint