OoL digest — October 27
This week we have 19 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial Life
Vants and Turmites
Turk — Artificial Life
Astrobiology
The Influence of Tidal Heating on the Habitability of Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Becker et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Blink and you'll miss it -- How Technological Acceleration Shrinks SETI's Narrow Detection Window
Garrett — preprint
Wind Power as a Technosignature on M-dwarf Planets
Haqq-Misra et al. — Research Notes of the AAS
The impact of stellar winds and tidal locking effects on the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets around M dwarf stars
Hidalgo et al. — preprint
Genomic characterization of Microbacterium meiriae sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from the International Space Station
Karouia et al. — Scientific Reports
A Cost-Effective Search for Extraterrestrial Probes in the Solar System
Villarroel et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fragmented deoxyribonucleic acid could be extractable from Mars’s surface rocks
Zorzano et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Astrochemistry
Protostars at Subsolar Metallicity: First Detection of Large Solid-state Complex Organic Molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Sewiło et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Interstellar Formation of the Elusive Phosphanyloxyphosphane (H2POPH2) and Phosphanylphosphinous Acid (H2PPHOH) via Nonequilibrium Chemistry: Precursors to the Phosphate Backbone of Nucleotides
Wang et al. — Journal of the American Chemical Society
Biochemistry
A Hybrid Iron/Green-Rust-Urea Model for Prebiotic Chemistry: A Synthesis of Testable Pathways for Planetary Astrobiology
Fisher — preprint
Geoscience
Iron’s irony: speciation, complexation & microbial processing of Fe in hydrothermal plumes
Bühring et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Mathematical Biology
Toward stable replication of genomic information in pools of RNA molecules
Burger et al. — eLife
Microbiology
Decoding microbial diversity, biogeochemical functions, and interaction potentials in red sea hydrothermal vents
Altalhi et al. — Environmental Microbiome
Growth, physiology, and metabolism of Halomonas meridiana in aqueous ammonium sulfate with implications for icy moon astrobiology
Hopton et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology
Palaeontology
Magnetic vector tomography reveals giant magnetofossils are optimised for magnetointensity reception
Harrison et al. — Communications Earth & Environment
Planetary Sciences
Marine phosphorus and atmospheric oxygen were coupled during the Great Oxidation Event
Dodd et al. — Nature Communications
Triple-oxygen isotopic evidence of prolonged direct bioleaching of pyrite with O2
Kohl et al. — Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Impactor relics of CI-like chondrites in Chang’e-6 lunar samples
Wang et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences