OoL digest — May 19
This week we have 12 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
A Comparative Study of Novel Microscopic Entities in Rock Samples: Implications for Panspermia and the Origin of Life.
Castano et al. — preprint
Using anomaly detection to search for technosignatures in Breakthrough Listen observations
Pardo et al. — preprint
Questioning the Reliability of Methane Detections on Mars by the Curiosity Rover
Viscardy et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Biochemistry
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases
Demkiv et al. — Molecular Biology and Evolution
Functional Ambidexterity of an Ancient Nucleic Acid-Binding Domain
Weil-Ktorza et al. — Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Biophysics
A Thermodynamic Model for the Emergence of Natural Selection in Prebiotic Reaction Networks
Prosser — preprint
Microbiology
Structure and evolution of photosystem I in the early-branching cyanobacterium Anthocerotibacter panamensis
Jiang et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A close unicellular relative reveals aggregative multicellularity was key to the evolution of animals
Li et al. — preprint
Planetary sciences
A spectrum of tectonic processes at coronae on Venus revealed by gravity and topography
Cascioli et al. — Science Advances
The atmosphere of Titan in late northern summer from JWST and Keck observations
Nixon et al. — Nature Astronomy
Viewing lobate patterns on Mars and Earth as climate modulated fluid-like instabilities
Sleiman et al. — Icarus
Origin of moderately volatile elements in Earth inferred from mass-dependent Ge isotope variations among chondrites
Wölfer et al. — preprint