OoL digest — September 8
This week we have 16 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Artificial Life
Automating the Search for Artificial Life With Foundation Models
Kumar et al. — Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Parameter Space Exploration of Low-to-moderate-temperature Hydrothermal Systems on Ocean Worlds Using a Monte Carlo Framework
Akiba et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
Transition metal abundance as a key parameter for the search of Life in the Universe
Covone et al. — The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Observational Tests of Terrestrial Planet Buffering Feedbacks and the Habitable Zone Concept
Underwood et al. — preprint
A novel metric for assessing climatological surface habitability
Woodward et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
Astrochemistry
First detection of ethylene oxide and acetaldehyde in hot core G358.93$-$0.03 MM1: Tracing prebiotic oxygen chemistry
Manna et al. — New Astronomy
Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site
Schulze et al. — Nature
Astrophysics
First JWST thermal phase curves of temperate terrestrial exoplanets reveal no thick atmosphere around TRAPPIST-1 b and c
Gillon et al. — preprint
Biochemistry
Archaeal G-Quadruplexes: A Novel Model for Understanding Unusual DNA/RNA Structures Across the Tree of Life
Aktary et al. — preprint
Experimental evolution toward extinction in a molecular host-parasite system
Yukawa et al. — preprint
Geoscience
Abiotic synthesis during the interaction of ferrous chloride–rich silicic fluids with marble under high-grade metamorphic conditions
Fei et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Mathematical Biology
From correlation to causation: Unraveling the impact of closure on open-ended evolution within the Kauffman model
Faggian — BioSystems
Microbiology
The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: illuminating the eukaryotic tree of life
Blaxter et al. — Frontiers in Science
The multiple extremes of temperature, salt and pH define narrower limits to microbial growth in Halomonas hydrothermalis than individual extremes
Dickinson et al. — International Journal of Astrobiology
Inverse Relationship Between Halophilic Growth and Cell Integrity Under Extremely Chaotropic Conditions
Fisher et al. — Astrobiology
Planetary Sciences
Isotopic composition of cometary water and the origin of Earth's oceans
Lis et al. — Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems