OoL digest — October 14 edition
This week we have 12 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial life
Survival and Evolutionary Adaptation of Populations Under Disruptive Habitat Change: A Study With Darwinian Cellular Automata
Derets et al. — Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Primitive asteroids as a major source of terrestrial volatiles
Martins et al. — Science Advances
Making Habitable Worlds: Planets Versus Megastructures
Narasimha et al. — preprint
Phosphorus-rich grains in Ryugu samples with major biochemical potential
Pilorget et al. — Nature Astronomy
Astrophysics
JWST Thermal Emission of the Terrestrial Exoplanet GJ 1132b
Xue et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Biochemistry
A polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize both itself and its complementary strand
Gianni et al. — preprint
Rapid hydrolysis rates of thio- and phosphate esters constrain the origin of metabolism to cool, acidic to neutral environments
Sanden et al. — iScience
Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication
Schwintek et al. — eLife
Pinpointing Conditions for a Metabolic Origin of Life: Underlying Mechanisms and the Role of Coenzymes
Zimmermann et al. — Accounts of Chemical Research
Geoscience
Unraveling abiotic organic synthesis pathways in the mafic crust of mid-ocean ridges
Nan et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Microbiology
Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere
Hou et al. — Cell
Planetary sciences
Ferric Iron Evolution During Crystallization of the Earth and Mars
Schaefer et al. — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets