Artificial life

How Turing parasites expand the computational landscape of digital life
LF et al. – Physical Review E

Astrobiology

Controls of Atmospheric Methane on Early Earth and Inhabited Earth-like Terrestrial Exoplanets
Akahori et al. – preprint

Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets?
Anslow et al. – Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Does Gaia Play Dice? Simple Models of Non-Darwinian Selection
Arthur et al. – Astrobiology

False Positives and the Challenge of Testing the Alien Hypothesis
Foote et al. – Astrobiology

Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature?
Malaterre et al. – Astrobiology

Searching for Life in Hot Spring Carbonate Systems: Investigating Raman Spectra of Carotenoid-Bearing Organic Carbonaceous Inclusions from Travertines of Italy
O’Donnell et al. – Astrobiology

Mercury’s Hidden Past: Revealing a Volatile-dominated Layer through Glacier-like Features and Chaotic Terrains
Rodriguez et al. – The Planetary Science Journal

Infrared Spectral Signatures of Nucleobases in Interstellar Ices I: Purines
Rosa et al. – Life

Inferring Chemical Disequilibrium Biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-Like Exoplanets
Young et al. – preprint

Astrophysics

Retrievals Applied To A Decision Tree Framework Can Characterize Earth-like Exoplanet Analogs
Young et al. – preprint

Biochemistry

A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Liu et al. – Current Biology

ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life
Mahendrarajah et al. – Nature Communications

A Plausible Prebiotic Path to Nucleosides: Ribosides and Related Aldosides Generated from Ribulose, Fructose, and Similar Abiotic Precursors
Roche et al. – Chemistry – A European Journal

One-Pot Formation of Pairing Proto-RNA Nucleotides and Their Supramolecular Assemblies
Roche et al. – Life

Chemistry

Towards a prebiotic chemoton – nucleotide precursor synthesis driven by the autocatalytic formose reaction
Tran et al. – Chemical Science

Computational biology

A non-adaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity
Bingham et al. – preprint

Geosciences

Micronutrient availability in Precambrian oceans controlled by greenalite formation
Tostevin et al. – Nature Geoscience

Microbiology

Field-Based Planetary Protection Operations for Melt Probes: Validation of Clean Access into the Blood Falls, Antarctica, Englacial Ecosystem
Mikucki et al. – Astrobiology

Platenary sciences

Organic sulfur from source to sink in low-sulfate Lake Superior
Phillips et al. – Limnology and Oceanography

A new era in solar system astronomy with JWST
Villanueva et al. – Nature Communications

Synthetic life

Superstructural ordering in self-sorting coacervate-based protocell networks
Mu et al. – Nature Chemistry