OoL digest — May 27 edition
This week we have 19 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
The Kinematics of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Galaxies revealed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) tomography with JWST/NIRSpec
Donnan et al. — preprint
Bioverse: GMT and ELT Direct Imaging and High-Resolution Spectroscopy Assessment – Surveying Exo-Earth O2 and Testing the Habitable Zone Oxygen Hypothesis
Hardegree-Ullman et al. — preprint
Gliese 12 b: A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 pc Ideal for Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy
Kuzuhara et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Adaptive sampling with PIXL on the Mars Perseverance rover
Lawson et al. — preprint
Investigating Microbial Biosignatures in Aeolian Environments Using Micro-X-Ray: Simulation of PIXL Instrument Analyses at Jezero Crater Onboard the Perseverance Mars 2020 Rover
Nachon et al. — Astrobiology
Science Overview of the Europa Clipper Mission
Pappalardo et al. — Space Science Reviews
The TESS-Keck Survey. XX. 15 New TESS Planets and a Uniform RV Analysis of All Survey Targets
Polanski et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Evaluating Pigments as a Biosignature: Abiotic/Prebiotic Synthesis of Pigments and Pigment Mimics in Planetary Environments
Rodriguez et al. — Astrobiology
Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures
Schwieterman et al. — preprint
Thresholds of Temperature and Time for Mars Sample Return: Final Report of the Mars Sample Return Temperature-Time Tiger Team
Sephton et al. — Astrobiology
UV Transmission in Prebiotic Environments on Early Earth
Todd et al. — Astrobiology
Biochemistry
Emergent ribozyme behaviors in oxychlorine brines indicate a unique niche for molecular evolution on Mars
Hoog et al. — Nature Communications
Cell-in-cell phenomena across the tree of life
Kapsetaki et al. — Scientific Reports
Expanding the molecular language of protein liquid–liquid phase separation
Rekhi et al. — Nature Chemistry
Chemistry
Competitive Exclusion among Self-Replicating Molecules Curtails the Tendency of Chemistry to Diversify
Eleveld et al. — preprint
Self-generating autocatalytic networks: structural results, algorithms and their relevance to early biochemistry
Huson et al. — Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Solvent constraints for biopolymer folding and evolution in extraterrestrial environments
Sánchez et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Mathematical biology
A minimal scenario for the origin of non-equilibrium order
Ravasio et al. — preprint
Physics
A Test of the Thermodynamics of Evolution
Sadasivan et al. — preprint