OoL digest — October 13
This week we have 30 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial Life
Self-replication and Computational Universality
Cotler et al. — preprint
Astrobiology
Mars Sample Return Sample Receiving Project Measurement Definition Team Final Report
Carrier et al. — Astrobiology
Technosignatures of Self-Replicating Probes in the Solar System
Ellery — preprint
Spectral Mixture Modeling with Laboratory Near-Infrared Data I: Insights into Compositional Analysis of Europa
Emran — preprint
Probing the Origin of Water in Planets within Habitable Zones by HWO
Hasegawa et al. — preprint
Planetary analog sites in the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean: Underexplored environments suited for astrobiological and space research
Jangir et al. — preprint
Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations: III. Constraints on Radio Broadcasts from the Cosmic Population of Inhabited Galaxies
Lacki — preprint
On the Possibility of Melting Water Ice during the Recent Past of Mars. Application to the Formation of Gullies
Lange et al. — preprint
K2-18b Does Not Meet the Standards of Evidence for Life
Stevenson et al. — The Astronomical Journal
Preliminary Planning for Mars Sample Return (MSR) Curation Activities in a Sample Receiving Facility (SRF)
Tait et al. — Astrobiology
The Abiotic Background as a Central Component of a Sample Safety Assessment Protocol for Sample Return
Teece et al. — Astrobiology
Sample Science Traceability Matrix for Perseverance’s Mars Sample Return Collection
Zorzano et al. — Astrobiology
Astrochemistry
Molecular Mobility of Extraterrestrial Ices: Surface Diffusion in Astrochemistry and Planetary Science
Ligterink et al. — Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Astrophysics
The Near-Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Water Ice, Epsomite, and Halite Mixtures Relevant to Europa
Berdis et al. — preprint
A JWST study of CO$_2$ on the satellites of Saturn
Brown et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Unconventional Fusion Mechanism at the Origin of Eukaryotic Membranes
Mascotti et al. — preprint
A scope of prebiotic neat reaction conditions and the mechanism of urea-assisted phosphorylations of alcohols
Shvetsova et al. — Nature Communications
Mathematical Biology
Evolution of reproduction driven by ecology at the onset of multicellularity
Fernandes et al. — preprint
Geometry of Growing-Dividing Autocatalytic Dynamical Systems
Pandey et al. — preprint
Microbiology
Planetary microbiology: microbes, planets, and the search for life
Kaçar — Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Quantifying uncertainty in foraminifera classification: How deep learning methods compare to human experts
Martinsen et al. — Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences
The origin and evolution of life as continuing expansion of viral hosts
Nemchinov — BioSystems
Multi-technique characterization of iron reduction by an Antarctic Shewanella: an analog system for putative Martian biosignature identification
Shaffer et al. — Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Planetary Sciences
Dust devil migration patterns reveal strong near-surface winds across Mars
Bickel et al. — Science Advances
Microbial Resuscitation and Growth Rates in Deep Permafrost: Lipid Stable Isotope Probing Results From the Permafrost Research Tunnel in Fox, Alaska
Caro et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Halophiles and Halotolerants: From Industry to Astrobiology
de Souza Vieira et al. — Current Microbiology
Stratigraphic Evidence of Backwater Morphodynamics and Lowland River Deltas in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars
Hughes et al. — Geophysical Research Letters
Biogeochemical impact of nickel and urea in the great oxidation event
Ratnayake et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Long-term and multi-stage ice accumulation in the martian mid-latitudes during the Amazonian
Ruj et al. — Geology
Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
Steffen et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters