This week we have 34 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

Signatures of Silicification in Lava Tubes: Implications for Biosignature Preservation and Detection on Earth and Mars
Bower et al. — Astrobiology

Multi-Excitation Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Matter within Opaline Silica Sinters from Mars-Analog Hot Spring Settings: Implications for the Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures
Cheng et al. — Astrobiology

UV Exposure Study of 1-Methylnicotinamide Chloride: Self-Preservation in a Simple NAD(P)⁺ Analog
Engel et al. — Astrobiology

A dual-mineral protection mechanism for organic matter preservation and its implications for Mars habitability and biosignature detection
Huang et al. — Communications Earth & Environment

Functional profiling of spacecraft cleanroom microbiomes through genome-wide phenotype predictions
Mahnert et al. — preprint

Habitability and Biosignatures on Earth and Mars
Osterhout et al. — Astrobiology

The long-term persistence of microbial biospheres introduces a temporal bias 1 into the Drake equation: implications for the search for extraterrestrial life
Roizman et al. — preprint

Potential survivable niches for microbial life on the lunar south pole
Saxena et al. — preprint

On the Impact of Correlated Noise and Spectral Resolution on the Retrieval Analysis of the Habitable World Observatory
Wang et al. — preprint

Astrochemistry

The refractory fraction of phosphorus in planet-forming discs
Borthakur et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

pyEDITH: the coronagraphic exposure time calculator for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Alei et al. — preprint

Evidence for an Atmosphere on the Ultra-short-period Super-Earth HD 3167 b
Coy et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Precise Stellar Age Constraints and Habitable Zone Evolution in Exoplanet Systems
Henry et al. — preprint

Radial velocity detection of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system with SPIRou and NIRPS
L'Heureux et al. — preprint

Evolution of Stellar Activity and Habitable Zone (EATEN): III. X-ray Activity of Dwarfs in Open Clusters and Field Stars
Li et al. — preprint

JWST telemetry combined with active coronagraphy: raw contrast predictions for exoplanet imaging with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Pourcelot et al. — preprint

Planet Formation at Cosmic Dawn: Planetesimals in H₂ O-rich Disks around Low-mass Stars
Vorobyov et al. — The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Impacts of Correlated Noise on Retrievals of Exo-Earth Atmospheres
Wolff et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

tinyRNA-seq: An optimized approach to sequencing tiny RNAs and primitive RNA genomes
Colville et al. — preprint

Structure of an RNA polymerase ribozyme replication complex
Strutzenberg et al. — preprint

Prebiotic cationic amino acids support formation of an ancient protein fold
Yagi et al. — preprint

Peptides adopt stable omega-loop structures in concentrated sulfuric acid
Zhang et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Computational Biology

The history of enzyme evolution embedded in metabolism
Corlett et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Geoscience

The evolution of the Earth’s surface iron cycle
Scholz et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mathematical Biology

Bridging two theoretical frameworks of autocatalysis: RAF sets and stoichiometric autocatalysis
Golnik et al. — Journal of Theoretical Biology

Planetary Sciences

Atmospheric escape fractionates secondary but not primary atmospheres
Attia et al. — preprint

Climates of Gl 514 b
Delgado Díaz et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

Probing Triton's Space Environment and Internal Structure: An Integrated Detection-and-Interpretation Framework
He et al. — preprint

The Venus Benchmark: Resolving Degeneracies in Terrestrial Exoplanet Spectra with DAVINCI
Kane et al. — preprint

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE-UVS)
Retherford et al. — preprint

Synthetic Biology

Rewiring the ribosome to translate proteins encoded in its own RNA
Alizadeh et al. — Nature

Autonomous Homeostatic Synthetic Cells via Self-Gating DNA Nanopores
Bano et al. — preprint

Structural basis of transcription of the hachimoji eight-letter alphabet by E. coli RNA polymerase
Li et al. — Nature Communications

Hydrophobic unnatural base pair promotes trigger loop closure and catalysis in cellular RNA polymerase independent of hydrogen bonding
Li et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences