OoL digest — May 6 edition
This week we have 29 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Complexity, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intelligence
Gershenson — preprint
Astrobiology
Technosignatures Longevity and Lindy’s Law
Balbi et al. — The Astronomical Journal
Capillary processes in extraterrestrial contexts
Cordier et al. — preprint
The impact of Ozone on Earth-like exoplanet climate dynamics: the case of Proxima Centauri b
De Luca et al. — preprint
Manganese-Rich Sandstones as an Indicator of Ancient Oxic Lake Water Conditions in Gale Crater, Mars
Gasda et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities
Mennesson et al. — preprint
Abiotic Ribose Synthesis Under Aqueous Environments with Various Chemical Conditions
Ono et al. — Astrobiology
Distinguishing Potential Organic Biosignatures on Ocean Worlds from Abiotic Geochemical Products using Thermodynamic Calculations
Robare et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Development of Allosteric Ribozymes for ATP and l-Histidine Based on the R3C Ligase Ribozyme
Akatsu et al. — Life
Membrane permeability selection drove the stereochemistry of life
Goode et al. — preprint
Infrared Spectroscopy of RNA Nucleosides in a Wide Range of Temperatures
Iglesias-Groth et al. — Life
Group-selection via aggregative propagule-formation enables cooperative multicellularity in an individual based, spatial model
Oszoli et al. — PLOS Computational Biology
Promoter recruitment drives the emergence of proto-genes in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli
uz-Zaman et al. — PLOS Biology
Chemistry
The Role of Acetylene in the Chemical Evolution of Carbon Complexity
Pentsak et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Solutions of ferrous salts protect liposomes from UV damage: implications for Life Origin
Turner et al. — preprint
Microfluidics-Based Drying–Wetting Cycles to Investigate Phase Transitions of Small Molecules Solutions
Verma et al. — Life
Amino acid analogues provide multiple plausible pathways to prebiotic peptides
Zhang et al. — Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Physics
On principles of emergent organization
Rupe et al. — Physics Reports
Planetary science
Venus water loss is dominated by HCO+ dissociative recombination
Chaffin et al. — Nature
The Implications of Thermal Hydrodynamic Atmospheric Escape on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Gialluca et al. — preprint
Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and animal radiation in the Ediacaran Period
Huang et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Meteorites and Planet Formation
Jones — preprint
Super-Earths and Earth-like Exoplanets
Lichtenberg et al. — preprint
Some Tectonic Concepts Relevant to the Study of Rocky Exoplanets
Putirka — preprint
The Solar System: structural overview, origins and evolution
Raymond — preprint
Subaerial weathering drove stabilization of continents
Reimink et al. — Nature
The Most Common Habitable Planets III — Modeling Temperature Forcing and Surface Conditions on Rocky Exoplanets and Exomoons
Siffert et al. — preprint
The Chemical Composition of Ryugu: Prospects as a Reference Material for Solar System Composition
Yokoyama et al. — preprint
A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth
Yuan et al. — Geophysical Research Letters