OoL digest — April 8 edition

This week we have 11 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!

Astrobiology

The Impact of Extended H$_{2}$O Cross-Sections on Temperate Anoxic Planet Atmospheres: Implications for Spectral Characterization of Habitable Worlds
Broussard et al. – preprint

Different Scenarios for the Origin and the Subsequent Succession of a Hypothetical Microbial Community in the Cloud Layer of Venus
Kotsyurbenko et al. – Astrobiology

NLTE modelling of water-rich exoplanet atmospheres. Cooling and heating rates
Muñoz et al. – preprint

De novo Genome Sequencing and Annotation of a Thermophilic Cyanobacterium using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Sequencing Platform
Woortman et al. – preprint


Astrophysics

Report of the Working Group on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST
Redfield et al. – preprint

A proposal for enhancing technosignature search toward the Galactic center
Seto – preprint


Chemistry

Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics of autocatalytic networks
Despons – preprint

Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity
Matreux et al. – Nature

A Thermodynamic Landscape of Hydrogen Cyanide-Derived Molecules and Polymers
Sandström et al. – preprint


Earth sciences

Primordial and recycled noble gases in the Cook-Austral HIMU mantle: Insights into the onset of volatile subduction
Zhang et al. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters


Statistical physics

Thermodynamic dissipation does not bound replicator growth and decay rates
Kolchinsky – preprint