Artificial life

Looking for Complexity at Phase Boundaries in Continuous Cellular Automata
Papadopoulos et al. – preprint

Astrobiology

Friends not Foes: Strong Correlation between Inner Super-Earths and Outer Gas Giants
Bryan et al. – preprint

Icy ocean worlds, plumes, and tasting the water
Burchell et al. – Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Modelling Triatomic Biosignatures: Ozone and Isotopomers
Cross et al. – preprint

Crash Chronicles: relative contribution from comets and carbonaceous asteroids to Earth’s volatile budget in the context of an Early Instability
Joiret et al. – Icarus

Venus as an Anchor Point for Planetary Habitability
Kane et al. – preprint

How, when and where current mass flows in Martian gullies are driven by CO2 sublimation
Roelofs et al. – Communications Earth & Environment

Early-branching cyanobacteria up-regulate superoxide dismutase activity under a simulated early Earth anoxic atmosphere
Tamanna et al. – preprint

Interstellar formation of glyceric acid [HOCH 2 CH(OH)COOH]—The simplest sugar acid
Wang et al. – Science Advances

Astrophysics

VIRA: An Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for JWST Transmission Spectroscopy
Constantinou et al. – preprint

Biochemistry

GTP before ATP: The energy currency at the origin of genes
Mrnjavac et al. – preprint

RNA-catalyzed evolution of catalytic RNA
Papastavrou et al. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Chemistry

Polyhedral geometry and combinatorics of an autocatalytic ecosystem
Gagrani et al. – Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

Exploring Andean High-Altitude Lake Extremophiles through Advanced Proteotyping
Runzheimer et al. – Journal of Proteome Research

Geology

Large-scale submarine landslides in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, southern Africa—Evidence for subduction and great earthquakes in the Paleoarchean
Lamb et al. – Geology

Microbiology

Inactive hydrothermal vent microbial communities are important contributors to deep ocean primary productivity
Achberger et al. – Nature Microbiology

Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment
Pineau et al. – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Planetary science

Resolved ALMA observations of water in the inner astronomical units of the HL Tau disk
Facchini et al. – Nature Astronomy