This week we have 36 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

Life in the cosmic neighbourhood: galactic habitable zones in the eagle simulations
Barnes et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Spatial patterning and selection: How the environment shapes molecular complexity
Champagne-Ruel et al. — PNAS Nexus

A Technosignature Survey Of The Anti-Solar Point: The SETI Institute's Largest-Ever Campaign With The Allen Telescope Array
Gerrard et al. — preprint

Assessing the Preservation of Polysaccharides from a Sea-Ice Bacterium Through Analog Icy Moon Plume Ejection
Kanaan et al. — Astrobiology

Chiral discrimination of amino acids in meteorite and desert soil extracts via single-molecule nanogap conductance
Ohshiro et al. — Nature Communications

Inside the Eirenesphere: The Interplay of Porosity, Heat Flux and Mineralogy in Exoplanetary Aquable and Habitable Layers
Orjuela et al. — preprint

Fluid inclusions establish natron as a key astrobiological target on Enceladus
Perera et al. — Communications Earth & Environment

Opportunity Lost in Searching for Technosignatures
Prabu et al. — preprint

LoFreq-SETI: A Low-Frequency Technosignature Search Pipeline for the LWA Swarm
Taylor et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

Secondary Ion–Ice Chemistry in UV-Irradiated Oxygen Ice: New Astrochemical Models Including Bulk Ionic Species
Darnell et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Complex Organic Molecules in Protostars with ALMA Spectral Surveys (COMPASS): I. Overview of the ALMA Large Program
Jørgensen et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics

Complex Organic Molecules in Protostars with ALMA Spectral Surveys (COMPASS): IV. Methyl cyanide isotopologues toward BHR71-IRS1
Nazari et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics

Intimate Link Between Prebiotic Chemistry and Meteorites: Mechanisms of Organic Molecule Formation
Tunney et al. — Astrobiology

Astrophysics

Coronal Mass Ejections from the Young Sun: Deceleration-Powered Solar Energetic Particles as a Self-Extinguishing Forcing of the Early Earth
Panasenco — preprint

Biochemistry

Protocells reproduce morphological and chemical signatures of early microfossils
Chalonge et al. — preprint

RNA catalysis emerges from dynamic structural ensembles
Degenhardt et al. — Nature

Biology

Overcoming key challenges in the evolutionary transition to multicellularity
Ozan Bozdag et al. — Nature

Biophysics

Tryptophan-induced nanometrization and hydrophobization of Fe²⁺ /Fe³⁺ oxyhydroxide green rust crystals enable their insertion into lipid particles
Gaudu et al. — preprint

Temperature-dependent Hydrocarbon Chain Packing in Fatty Acid Protocell Membranes at Mineral Interfaces
Harada et al. — preprint

Growth-Triggered Nano-vesicle Budding via Leaflet Area Asymmetry in Fatty-Acid Protocells
Mikuláš — preprint

Chemistry

Membraneless microdroplets generate thermodynamically distinct states of water under fully hydrated conditions
Chen et al. — preprint

Chemistry Nobel for solving mystery of how ‘handed’ organic molecules can emerge
Gibney et al. — Nature

Beyond the Prebiotic Soup: Solid Organic Films and Protocell-Like Formation in Prebiotic Discharge Experiments
Jenewein et al. — Astrobiology

Hydrothermal origin of metabolic phosphorylation
Schlikker et al. — The FEBS Journal

Geoscience

Idealized Earth system model analysis of the primary controls on shallow seafloor oxygenation
Xu et al. — preprint

Mathematical Biology

Compatible Comma-Free Codes and the Origin of the Genetic Code
Boyle et al. — preprint

Microbiology

A hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome retaining only its replicative core
Harada et al. — Current Biology

Novel Antarctic chemolithotroph drives iron biomineralization
Yoon et al. — Microbiome

Physics

Quantum scattering of hot H/D on CO$_2$: Cross sections and rate coefficients for planetary atmospheres and their evolution
Bop et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Planetary Sciences

Gen-EBM: an energy balance model for terrestrial planets. Climate multistability from snowball to post-runaway greenhouse climates
Bhatnagar et al. — preprint

The Physical and Chemical Life Cycle of Acetylene on Titan’s Surface
Lunine

Oxygen Ion Irradiation of Tholins: Implications for the Incorporation of Oxygen into Aerosols in Titan’s Atmosphere
Matuszewski et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

A Review of the Geochemical Environment at Selk Crater on Titan: Applications to Dragonfly
Neish et al. — Astrobiology

Glycine Partitions into Halite during Crystallization in Ceres Simulant Brines
Reynoso et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

Stochastic Snowball States in Planetary Climate
Vu et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Genetic encoding and mutagenesis of RNA droplet phenotypes
Verstraeten et al. — Nature Chemical Engineering