OoL digest — May 12
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Quantifying the Fermi paradox via passive SETI: a general framework
Civiletti — preprint
Comparative Biosignatures
Constantinou et al. — preprint
Projections of Earth’s technosphere. I. Scenario modeling, worldbuilding, and overview of remotely detectable technosignatures
Haqq-Misra et al. — preprint
Membrane-Spanning Molecular Lengths as an Agnostic Biosignature
Malaska et al. — Astrobiology
Plume Particle Ejecta Can Trace Habitat-forming Gradients in Ocean Worlds: Insights from Planet Earth Geochemistry
Yücel et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
Astrophysics
Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). IV. Synergy between astrometry and direct imaging missions of the Habitable World Observatory for detecting Earth-like planets
Bao et al. — preprint
Statistical geochemical constraints on present-day water outgassing as a source of secondary atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets
Thomas et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Astrobiological implications of the stability and reactivity of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in concentrated sulfuric acid
Petkowski et al. — Science Advances
Biophysics
Thermodynamic consistency of autocatalytic cycles
Kosc et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Emergence of Chirality from Metabolism
Malloy et al. — preprint
Geoscience
Reassessing the photochemical contribution to Archean Banded Iron Formations
Vergeli et al. — Chemical Geology
Microbiology
Dethiothermospora halolimnae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic, thermotolerant, bacterium isolated from a brine lake
Fisher et al. — International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Predation, evo-devo, and historical contingency: A nematode predator drives evolution of aggregative multicellularity
Schaal et al. — preprint
Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota
Zhang et al. — Nature
Planetary sciences
Viewing lobate patterns on Mars and Earth as climate modulated fluid-like instabilities
Sleiman et al. — Icarus
Seismic evidence of liquid water at the base of Mars’ upper crust
Sun et al. — National Science Review