This week we have 29 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.

Artificial Life

Emergence, Cavity Reorganization, and Open-Water Persistence of Membrane-Rich Organization under Coupled Field Dynamics
Yamaki et al. — BioSystems

Astrobiology

Enceladus-like geochemistry fuels methanogenesis under extreme CO₂ limitation
Helmbrecht et al. — Science Advances

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

High-CO2 Climates and Observables in the Outer Habitable Zone
Pidhorodetska et al. — The Astrophysical Journal

Astrochemistry

Oxidation of Photochemical Organic Hazes: A Prebiotic Source of Oxygen-Bearing Organics in Titan’s Atmosphere and Early Earth?
Maratrat et al. — Astrobiology

Synthesis of organo-phosphorous species in space: the reaction of P$^+$ with C$_2$H$_2$
Michielan et al. — preprint

Water enhances the formation of refractory sulfur in interstellar ices
Olivares et al. — preprint

NonequilibriumFormation of C4 Carbonylsin Interstellar Ices Linked to Amino Acids
Wang et al. — ACS Central Science

Astrophysics

Variable X-ray flux may explain variable helium escape from the habitable-zone exoplanet LHS 1140b
Cherubim et al. — preprint

Whole-disk Photometric and Colorimetric Phase Curves of Earth with the Clementine Lunar Orbiter
Cooper et al. — preprint

A Century of Radial-velocity and Astrometric Monitoring of 70 Oph AB: New PFS Data and Constraints on Possible Planetary Companions*
Li et al. — The Astrophysical Journal

Detecting atmospheres in the presence of stellar contamination: an empirically calibrated framework applied to four JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transits of TRAPPIST-1c
Rathcke et al. — preprint

PHAROS: Panchromatic spectral energy distributions of solar-like stars across evolutionary stages
Sumida et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Pathways of early evolution from the perspectives of a riboreplisome -- the ultimate RNA machine of life
Cleynen et al. — preprint

How Strong Is the Case for the RNA World?
Higgs — Life

Biophysics

A Simple Model to Predict Complex Coacervation: Forces as Drivers of Phase Change and Structuration
Datta et al. — preprint

Why Homochirality in Biology? Coherent Water as a Morphogenetic Dynamic Mold Down to the Molecular Level: A QED Perspective
Renati — Entropy

Chemistry

Continuous UV irradiation played an inconclusive role in selecting the canonical genetic alphabet
Jusino-Maldonado et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Nucleotide-mediated catalytic peptide synthesis from aminonitriles
Ohlendorf et al. — preprint

Uncatalyzed Guanosine Phosphorylation under Potentially Prebiotic Conditions
Proietti et al. — Chemistry

The influence of ribose on borate mineral solubility
Steller et al. — Scientific Reports

Geoscience

How did Earth get its water? Inside the extreme machine seeking answers
Dinneen — Nature

Microbiology

Whole-Genome Metagenomics Insights Revealed a Uranium Bio-remediating Cross-Domain Microbiome in the Dhala Impact Structure, India
Dwivedi et al. — preprint

Bacteriophage Q$β$: Six Decades at the Frontier of Molecular and Viral Evolution
Lázaro et al. — preprint

Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea
Radler et al. — Nature

Planetary Sciences

Flow dynamics of cryolava or impact melt on Titan's surface
Cordier et al. — preprint

Planetary eccentricity enhances inward comet transport but suppresses gentle impacts
Jiang — preprint

Delta morphology reveals timings of early ocean regression and hydrologic shift on ancient Mars
Kito et al. — npj Space Exploration

Global Distribution of Atmospheric Formaldehyde Deposition Correlated with Water Vapor on a Warm Early Mars
Koyama et al. — The Planetary Science Journal