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November 25, 2024

OoL digest — November 25 edition

This week we have 17 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!


Artificial life

Complexity, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intelligence
Gershenson — Artificial Life


Astrobiology

Distribution of Europium in The Milky Way Disk; Its Connection to Planetary Habitability and The Source of The R-Process
Carrasco et al. — preprint

Zircon trace element evidence for early hydrothermal activity on Mars
Gillespie et al. — Science Advances

Prebiotic chiral transfer from self-aminoacylating ribozymes may favor either handedness
Kenchel et al. — Nature Communications


Astrochemistry

Prebiotic chiral transfer from self-aminoacylating ribozymes may favor either handedness
Kenchel et al. — Nature Communications


Astrophysics

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. I. Confirmation of a 31-day planet orbiting HD 86728
Gupta et al. — preprint


Biochemistry

The emergence of Sox and POU transcription factors predates the origins of animal stem cells
Gao et al. — Nature Communications

Prebiotic formation of enantiomeric excess D-amino acids on natural pyrite
Li et al. — Nature Communications

RNA World with Inhibitors
Synak et al. — Entropy

Prebiotic Nucleoside Phosphorylation in a Simulated Deep-Sea Supercritical Carbon Dioxide–Water Two-Phase Environment
Tagawa et al. — Astrobiology


Chemistry

Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganisms
Genge et al. — Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Reply to ‘Experimental measurement of assembly indices are required to determine the threshold for life’
Hazen et al. — Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Dating recent aqueous activity on Mars
Tremblay et al. — Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Experimentally measured assembly indices are required to determine the threshold for life
Walker et al. — Journal of The Royal Society Interface


Geoscience

Hematite U-Pb dating of Snowball Earth meltwater events
Courtney-Davies et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface
Palma et al. — Communications Earth & Environment


Physics

Nanopore ion sources deliver individual ions of amino acids and peptides directly into high vacuum
Drachman et al. — Nature Communications


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