This week we have 19 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Please note that inclusion of these papers reflects topic, not quality, and that evaluating scientific merit is out of scope for this newsletter.

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Astrobiology

The biological cosmological constant ΛB${\mathbf{\Lambda }}_{\mathit{B}}$: Exploratory propensity, dynamical habitability and the geometric origin of life
Fariña et al. — BioSystems

Exploring Enceladus's Interior Structure Using Electromagnetic Induction
Grayver et al. — preprint

The Origin, Extension, and Future of the “NASA Definition” of Life
Mix — Astrobiology

Quantum Chemical Insights into the Dissociation of Phenol: Shedding Light on Impact Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Icy Moon Exploration
O’Sullivan et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Mineral False Positives in the Search for Exoplanet Surface Biosignatures
Parkinson et al. — preprint

Environmental conditions associated with carbonate-bearing rocks in lower hawksbill gap, Jezero Western fan, Mars
Williams et al. — Icarus

Molecular diversity as a biosignature
Yoffe et al. — Nature Astronomy

Astrophysics

Coupled Photochemical-Climate Modeling of Plausible Tenuous Outgassed Atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Gialluca et al. — preprint

Exploring TRAPPIST-1 Climate States with an Energy Balance Model
Haqq-Misra — preprint

Biochemistry

Structure-centric searching enables global mapping of the public metabolome
El Abiead et al. — Nature Biotechnology

Symmetries of the standard genetic code at the first stage of its evolution
Filatov — BioSystems

Genetic Information as a "Chord" of Chemical Oscillations: Emergence of Catalyst-RNA Systems Driven by Superposed Rhythms
Ishida — preprint

De-Darwinizing the proteome: the genome as the original germ line
Ratcliff — preprint

Biology

The Origin of Life in the Light of Evolution
Kaçar et al. — preprint

Microbiology

Active responses of cyanobacterial crusts directly exposed to the extreme stratospheric environment
Zhang et al. — Life Sciences in Space Research

Planetary Sciences

Simulation of the spin evolution of some selected exoplanets and inferences on their climate
Camposeo et al. — Universe

Recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major palaeozoic mass extinctions and climate change
Dodd et al. — Nature Communications

Manganese (Hydr)oxides record the dynamic evolution of a million-year Hesperian Ocean in Utopia Planitia, Mars
Hou et al. — Nature Communications

Revisiting the greenhouse effect of non-greenhouse gases in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets
Taki et al. — preprint