OoL digest — November 4 edition
This week we have 24 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
An experimental study of the biological impact of a superflare on the TRAPPIST-1 planets
Abrevaya et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Luminosity and Mass as Limits to Growth
Haqq-Misra et al. — preprint
Setting the stage: Building and maintaining a habitable world and the early conditions that could favor life’s beginnings on Earth and beyond
Jones et al. — preprint
Eta-Earth Revisited I: A Formula for Estimating the Maximum Number of Earth-Like Habitats
Lammer et al. — Astrobiology
Preface to Eta-Earth Revisited: How Common Are Earth-like Habitats in the Galaxy?
Lammer et al. — Astrobiology
Ultraviolet Photometry and Habitable Zones of Over 2700 Planet-Hosting Stars
Li et al. — preprint
Database of Candidate Targets for the LIFE Mission
Menti et al. — preprint
Database of Candidate Targets for the LIFE Mission
Menti et al. — Research Notes of the AAS
The 10 pc Neighborhood of Habitable Zone Exoplanetary Systems: Threat Assessment from Stellar Encounters & Supernovae
Pyne et al. — preprint
Eta-Earth Revisited II: Deriving a Maximum Number of Earth-Like Habitats in the Galactic Disk
Scherf et al. — Astrobiology
Weak magnetism of Martian impact basins may reflect cooling in a reversing dynamo
Steele et al. — Nature Communications
Self-Shielding Enhanced Organics Synthesis in an Early Reduced Earth’s Atmosphere
Yoshida et al. — Astrobiology
Biochemistry
Protocells by spontaneous reaction of cysteine with short-chain thioesters
Cho et al. — Nature Chemistry
Compositional diversity of minimal coacervates in a nucleic acid-peptide world
Nakashima et al. — preprint
Autocatalytic assembly of a chimeric aminoacyl-RNA synthetase ribozyme
Radakovic et al. — preprint
Tissue-Like Multicellular Development Triggered by Mechanical Compression in Archaea
Rados et al. — preprint
Operational considerations for approximating Molecular Assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry
Weiss et al. — Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Self-Shielding Enhanced Organics Synthesis in an Early Reduced Earth’s Atmosphere
Yoshida et al. — preprint
Biology
Rethinking life and predicting its origin
Gonçalves — Theory in Biosciences
Chemistry
Protocells by spontaneous reaction of cysteine with short-chain thioesters
Cho et al. — Nature Chemistry
RULE-IT: AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR REACTION NETWORK EXPLORATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
Cuevas-Zuviria et al. — preprint
Geoscience
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events
Black et al. — Nature Geoscience
Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life
Drabon et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Distinguishing Potential Organic Biosignatures on Ocean Worlds from Abiotic Geochemical Products using Thermodynamic Calculations
Robare et al. — preprint