This week we have 28 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

Ultraviolet Reflected-Light Spectroscopy of Modern Earth Analogs with Starshade Observations
Ahmed et al. — preprint

Radiation limits on amino acid preservation and chiral measurement at Oxia Planum
Atri — preprint

Astroecology: Theory and Models of the Universal Structure and Distribution of Life
Brodie — Astrobiology

Estimates for the Prebiotic Reaction Volume Necessary for the Origin of Life
Juckett — Life

Simulations of the Evolving Ozone Layer: Implications for the Early Earth, Exoplanets, and the Search For Life
Kumar et al. — preprint

Ancient Endorheic Lake Basins: Promising Sampling Sites for the Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return Mission
Li et al. — Astrobiology

A Proposal to Make Mars Sample Return a Collaborative NASA, ESA, and CNSA Effort
Li — Astrobiology

Millimetre/Sub-Millimetre SETI: Expanding the Radio Technosignature Parameter Space with ALMA2040
Mason et al. — preprint

Fermentation heterotrophy can reproduce Enceladus's H2 and CH4 under limited serpentiniaztion
Nasreldine et al. — preprint

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

The contact frontier in Galactic civilization networks: radial structure and the Galactic habitable zone
Tsumura — preprint

Science-Driven Performance Requirements for UV Coronagraph Design: Implications for O$_3$ Detection in Earth-like Atmospheres
Young et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

VUV and mid-UV photoabsorption cross sections of thin films of glycine and alanine: Application to their photochemistry in the solar system
Pastore et al. — Photochemistry and Photobiology

Frontiers of chemical complexity in the interstellar medium: unveiling the cosmic origins of life
Rivilla et al. — preprint

Chemistry on solar system scales
Walsh et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

UV photodamage pathways and the evolutionary selection of thymine over uracil in early genetic systems
Khosh Abady et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Biology

Reversion to the Meta Body Form of Life after Complete Cell Death in Pure Liquid Water
Wang et al. — preprint

Chemistry

Interfacial microenvironments enable abiotic ribonucleoside formation in micro- and nanoscale compartments
Liu et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

How Fluctuations Control Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Reacting Mixtures of Chiral Molecules
Silva-Dias et al. — preprint

Mathematical Biology

Life finds a way: Emergence of cooperative structures in adaptive threshold networks
Maley et al. — Journal of Theoretical Biology

Microbiology

Small viruses reveal bidirectional evolution between HK97-fold viruses and encapsulins via procapsids
Aguilar et al. — Nature Communications

The Unresolved Paradox of Viable Microorganisms in Ancient Halite
Renshaw et al. — Life

Planetary Sciences

Paleo-heat flux estimates across Enceladus derived from flexural response of the ice shell
Eakins et al. — Icarus

Using nuclear technology to change how we explore icy Ocean Worlds: examples from nuclear powered mission concept designs
Fox et al. — Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

3D Global Climate Simulations of Synthetic Mars Warming
Landefeld et al. — preprint

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

ALMA2040: Submillimeter-wave Limb Sounding of Venus and Mars
Sagawa et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Ice drives the emergence of functional protocells
Shinoda et al. — preprint