Astrobiology

Water content of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone
Boldog et al. – preprint

Xeno Amino Acids: A Look into Biochemistry as We Do Not Know It
Brown et al. – Life

Detection of intact amino acids with a hypervelocity ice grain impact mass spectrometer
Burke et al. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project
Glass et al. – Astrobiology

Investigating Europa’s Habitability with the Europa Clipper
Vance et al. – Space Science Reviews

Biochemistry

Examining the role of oxygen-binding proteins on the early evolution of multicellularity
Wong et al. – preprint

Carbonyl Migration in Uronates Affords a Potential Prebiotic Pathway for Pentose Production
Yi et al. – JACS Au

Biology

Boltzmann’s casino and the unbridgeable chasm in emergence of life research
Branscomb – preprint

Chemistry

An inorganic mineral-based protocell with prebiotic radiation fitness
Dai et al. – Nature Communications

Prebiotic Access to Enantioenriched Amino Acids via Peptide-Mediated Transamination Reactions
Yu et al. – preprint

Planetary sciences

Common origin of sterol biosynthesis points to a feeding strategy shift in Neoproterozoic animals
Brunoir et al. – Nature Communications

Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity
Crockett et al. – preprint

Chalcogen isotopes reveal limited volatile contribution from late veneer to Earth
Wang et al. – Science Advances

Synthetic life

Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly
Belluati et al. – Nature Chemistry

An inorganic mineral-based protocell with prebiotic radiation fitness
Dai et al. – Nature Communications