This week we have 22 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

Selection for propagule formation in prebiotic chemical ecosystems
Anderson et al. — preprint

Astrobiology

Sea Ice as an Origin of Life Location for Hycean and Ocean Worlds
Barrier et al. — preprint

The Case for Integrating Astrobiology Before, During, and After Crewed Space Missions
Blanco et al. — Astrobiology

Retrieving Ocean Glint Reflectance Signatures from Directly Imaged Earth-like Exoplanets
Cornish et al. — preprint

Stability of uracil in different sulphates under Martian-like UV irradiation
García-Florentino et al. — Icarus

Probing Ancient Biosignatures: Laser Mass Spectrometric Analysis of the 3.33 Ga Josefsdal Chert Using Laboratory and Space-prototype Instrumentation
Gruchola et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

Identifying Casual SETI Transmissions and Ultra-Faint RFI with Cumulant Imaging
Morales — preprint

Algorithmic bottlenecks in evolution: Genetic code, symbolic language, and the Great Filter hypothesis
Prokopenko et al. — Physics of Life Reviews

Astrochemistry

Interstellar Complex Organic Molecules and Molecular Outflows in NGC 1333 IRAS 4B and 4B' Observed Using NOEMA
Sarver et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Hybrid Spin-Orbit Tomography for Earth-like Planets: Simultaneous Mapping of Static Surfaces and Dynamic Clouds from Multicolor Light Curves
Kuwata et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

How old is photosynthesis? Thermodynamic analysis of chlorophyll molecule, biosynthesis and evolution
Popović et al. — BioSystems

Biology

The Emergence of Life in the Light of Evolution
Kaçar et al. — preprint

Biophysics

Water as a Transducer Layer Between Hyperspatial Information and Biological Order: A Hypothesis on the Origin of Life
Fuchs et al. — BioSystems

Chemistry

Auroral belts as magnetically localized reactors for prebiotic chemistry on early Earth
Kato — BioSystems

Polyelectrolyte Solutes, Gels, and Coacervates Differentially Impact Proto-Metabolic Ni-Catalyzed Bicarbonate Reduction.
Mullikin et al. — preprint

Computational Biology

Alternative genetic codes in bacteria and archaea identified with a fast k-mer–based algorithm
Melnykov — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Improved ancestral genome reconstruction using a learned gene-content grammar
Szöllősi et al. — preprint

Geoscience

Episodic records of deep microbial methanogenesis throughout the Caledonian mountain range exhumation
Van Dam et al. — Communications Earth & Environment

Mathematical Biology

From rule-taking to rule-making chemistry: a minimal population–environment feedback model
Blanco — Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Palaeontology

Carbon and Sulfur Isotopes of Microfossils and Pyrites from Neoarchean Cherts: Microbial Diversity in an Ancient Deep-Marine Environment
Osterhout et al. — Astrobiology

Planetary Sciences

Ammonium-bearing clays and multiple nitrogen species linked to the late-stage brines of Ryugu’s parent body
Matsumoto et al. — Nature Astronomy

Energy deposition in planetary and exoplanetary atmospheres induced by cosmic rays
Polman et al. — preprint