OoL digest — May 30th edition
This week we have 2 preprints and 8 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Binarity of a protostar affects the evolution of the disk and planets – Jørgensen et al. – Nature
Venus as an Exoplanet: I. An Initial Exploration of the 3-D Energy Balance for a CO2
Exoplanetary Atmosphere Around an M-Dwarf Star – Parkinson et al. – preprint
Searching for Life, Mindful of Lyfe’s Possibilities – Wong et al. – Life
Astrophysics
A statistical primer on exoplanet detection methods – Giertych et al. – preprint
Chemistry
An autonomously oscillating supramolecular self-replicator – Howlett et al. – Nature Chemistry
Microbiology
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens – Spietz et al. – Trends in Microbiology
Physics
From the origin of life to pandemics: Emergent phenomena in complex systems – Artime et al. – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Planetary Science
The dissipation of the solar nebula constrained by impacts and core cooling in planetesimals – Hunt et al. – Nature Astronomy
Changing spatial distribution of water flow charts major change in Mars’s greenhouse effect – Kite et al. – Science Advances
Statistical Physics
The information-theoretic foundation of thermodynamic work extraction – Marletto – Journal of Physics Communications