This week we have 22 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

Desert cyanobacteria under non-Earth conditions: Implications for astrobiology and sustainable life support
Billi — Acta Astronautica

A Firefly-inspired Model for Deciphering the Alien
Brooks et al. — preprint

Colors of Life in the Clouds: Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect Life on Planets like Earth
Coelho et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The Design of a Bioinspired Integrated Total Habitability Instrument for Planetary Exploration: A Review of Potential Sensing Technologies
Donaldson et al. — Biomimetics

Life in the dark: Potential urability of moons of rogue planets
Fröhlich et al. — preprint

Detectability of Atmospheric Climate and Biosignatures with the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) for terrestrial-type Exoplanets
Grenfell et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Aeolian Sediment Lithification From Late-Stage Aqueous Activity in the Gale Crater: Implications for Habitability on Mars
Krishnamoorthi et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Hidden in plain sight? Some challenges and needs for practical planetary biosignature exploration, both home and away-A Mini-Review.
Larter et al. — preprint

Abiogenesis on Different Star Types; a Dissipative Photochemical Perspective
Ledesma et al. — preprint

Prebiotic Chemistry Insights for Dragonfly: Thermodynamics of Amino Acid Synthesis in Selk Crater on Titan
Madan et al. — preprint

Water-driven Accessible Potential Karstic Caves in Hebrus Valles, Mars: Implications for Subsurface Habitability
Sharma et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The impact of supermassive black holes on exoplanet habitability: I. Spanning the natural mass range
Waas et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Binding Energies of Interstellar Complex Organic Molecules on Water Ice Surfaces: A Quantum Chemical Investigation
Kakkar et al. — The Astrophysical Journal

JWST Reveals Carbon-rich Chemistry in a Transitional Disk
Volz et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Mineral guided molecular enrichment: An interfacial driving force for protocell emergence on early Earth
Chen et al. — preprint

Evolution and structural diversity of the MotAB stator: insights into the origins of bacterial flagellar motility
Puente-Lelievre et al. — mBio

Biology

Time-resolved phylogenomics analysis reveals patterns in biosphere nutrient limitation through Earth history
Ni et al. — preprint

Chemistry

General multi-scale estimates for Lyapunov data of Perron-Frobenius matrices. The case of diluted autocatalytic chemical reaction networks
Unterberger — preprint

Computational Biology

Resurrected nitrogenases recapitulate canonical N-isotope biosignatures over two billion years
Rucker et al. — preprint

Palaeontology

Phytoplankton Blooms on the Barents Shelf, Svalbard, Associated With the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction
Buchwald et al. — AGU Advances

A Cnidarian affinity for Salterella and Volborthella: implications for the evolution of shells
Vayda et al. — Journal of Paleontology

Planetary Sciences

Global Distribution of the Key Species on the Surface of Europa
Li et al. — The Astrophysical Journal