This week we have 24 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

How high-pressure ices on large ocean worlds can support habitability: The compatibility of amino acids into ice VI and VII
Hao et al. — Science Advances

Microbial Methanogenesis on Mars: A Life Detection Target for an MLE-Type Mission and Future Human Exploration
Harris — preprint

Solar System Surface Technosignatures: Searching for Signs of Artificial Design on Extraterrestrial Terrain
Henrique et al. — preprint

What We Could Lose Trying to Make Mars Habitable
Koeppel et al. — Eos

Thermal reactivity of organic molecules in the presence of chloride salts: implications for the in situ gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analyses on mars
Mcintosh et al. — Icarus

Astrobiology
McMahon — Current biology: CB

A Technical Reanalysis of the Viking Carbon Assimilation-Pyrolytic Release Experiment
Spacek et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

An ALMA view on molecular complexity: water, methanol, and methyl formate in the HD 100546 and IRS 48 disks
Rampinelli et al. — preprint

The Central Molecular Zone of our Galaxy, a chemical complexity factory: first interstellar detections of molecules towards G+0.693
Rivilla — preprint

Cosmic-ray melt windows in interstellar ice make a four-carbon ketose but not the sugar pattern of G+0.693-0.027
Saito et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Enhanced Fidelity and Sequence Generality of an RNA Polymerase Ribozyme
Horning et al. — preprint

Biology

System-evolutionary view of RNA presence in living cells
Segerståhl et al.

Chemistry

From searching for extraterrestrial biosignatures to exploring the origins of life: A prebiotic chemistry perspective
Chen et al. — Fundamental Research

Programming of Dissipative Networks and Transient Vesicles Using Intrinsic Kinetic Discrimination of Thiol Oxidation
Huang et al. — preprint

Approaching life in a test tube with prebiotic chemistry
Pianowski — Communications Chemistry

Spontaneous Emergence of Homochiral Halogen-bonded Helices from Achiral Components
Puttreddy — preprint

Computational Biology

Molecular fossils of an ancestral code revealed by large-scale analysis of tRNAs
Nova Royo et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mathematical Biology

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

Microbiology

Impact Crater Hydrothermal Systems Support Rapid Microbial Enrichment and Diverse Metabolic Potential
Hardy et al. — Geobiology

Palaeontology

The evolution of oxygen, temperature, and marine aerobic habitat for animals over the last billion years of Earth history
Ashing-Giwa et al. — Current biology: CB

Philosophy

On the foundations of anthropic reasoning: Implications for life across the universe
Brewer et al. — preprint

Planetary Sciences

The science case for an in-situ measurement platform in the Venus clouds
Cohen et al. — preprint

When the core ate the atmosphere
Sparrman et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Circularly polarized luminescence as a contingency assay for ‘mirror life’ bio-hazards
MacKenzie et al. — Royal Society Open Science