OoL digest — September 9 edition
This week we have 10 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Impact of vegetation albedo on the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets
Bisesi et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The astrochemical evolutionary traits of phospholipid membrane homochirality
Bocková et al. — Nature Reviews Chemistry
Astrochemistry on Galactic scales
Colzi et al. — preprint
Possibilities for methanogenic and acetogenic life in molecular cloud
Feng — preprint
Projections of Earth’s technosphere. I. Scenario modeling, worldbuilding, and overview of remotely detectable technosignatures
Haqq-Misra et al. — preprint
The time evolution of the ultraviolet habitable zone
Spinelli et al. — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Biochemistry
Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life
Chandru et al. — Life
Overcoming nucleotide bias in the nonenzymatic copying of RNA templates
Duzdevich et al. — preprint
Biology
The Unfinished Reconstructed Nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor
Delaye — Journal of Molecular Evolution
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry
Williamson et al. — preprint