This week we have 20 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Please note that these papers were selected based on their relevance to the topic, not their quality.

Astrobiology

Metagenomics in Spaceflight: Establishing an Implementation Roadmap
Broddrick et al. — preprint

Distinguishing N$_2$-Dominated from O$_2$-Dominated Atmospheres on Terrestrial Exoplanets with Reflected-Light Spectroscopy
Burri et al. — preprint

Relevance of the Avalon Assemblage as an Astrobiological Analog for Icy Ocean Worlds
Cantine et al. — Astrobiology

From Anoxic to Oxic Earth: Detectability of Atmospheric Biosignatures across Stellar Hosts with ELT/ANDES
Dubey et al. — preprint

Extraterrestrial Chemical Boundary Conditions and Evolutionary Opportunity Space on Early Earth
DuPree — preprint

Blown Sand on Mars Can Spread Microbial Spores from Earth
Fenton et al. — Astrobiology

Cultivation of halophilic archaea in shallow subsurface Martian conditions has implications for extant life on Mars
Robinson et al. — Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Electrogenic Activity, Pigment Synthesis, and Protein Production in Limnospira indica at High Altitudes
Ryzhkov et al. — Astrobiology

A Large-scale Technosignature Survey of the Antisolar Point with the Allen Telescope Array: Survey Design and Pilot Results
Sheikh et al. — The Astronomical Journal

Power Density as a Universal Biosignature: An Application to the Stellivore Hypothesis
Vidal et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Formamide formation on forsterite and Mg(OH)$_2\cdot$H$_2$O
Campisi — preprint

The L1157 filament as traced in HNCO by the LMT
Gómez-Ruiz et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics

Biochemistry

The Kinetic Basis of the Genetic Code
Subramanian — preprint

Chemistry

Peptides at Vesicle and Mineral Prebiotic Interfaces
Cherepashuk et al. — Astrobiology

Prebiotic magnetite enables chirality-magnetic surface feedback
Devienne et al. — Science Advances

Geoscience

Pervasive poorly crystalline Mg-rich hydrous silicate material in C-type asteroid matrices
Okumura et al. — Communications Earth & Environment

Mathematical Biology

Can a self-sustaining chemical network emerge due to just a few catalysts?
Kim et al. — preprint

Microbiology

Geochemical signatures of magnetite are conserved in diverse populations of environmental magnetotactic bacteria
Busigny et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Planetary Sciences

The Limits of Tidal Circularization and Atmospheric Escape for Mini-Neptunes and Super-Earths: The Case of TOI-2257 b
Olohoy et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

Enigmatic HCl detections as a potential signature of igneous activity on Mars
Trokhimovskiy et al. — Science Advances