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A Firefly-inspired Model for Deciphering the Alien
Cameron Brooks, Estelle Janin, Gage Siebert +3
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) is, historically, a search for aliens like us, inspired by human centric ideas of intelligence and technology. However, humans ar…
The Emergence of Chirality from Metabolism
John F. Malloy, Camerian Millsaps, Kamesh Narasimhan +4
Molecular chirality is critical to biochemical function, but it is unknown when chiral selectivity first became important in the evolutionary transition from geochemistry to bioche…
Experimental Measurement of Assembly Indices are Required to Determine The Threshold for Life
Sara I. Walker, Cole Mathis, Stuart Marshall +1
Assembly Theory (AT) was developed to help distinguish living from non-living systems. The theory is simple as it posits that the amount of selection or Assembly is a function of t…
What it takes to solve the Origin(s) of Life: An integrated review of techniques
OoLEN, Silke Asche, Carla Bautista +35
Understanding the origin(s) of life (OoL) is a fundamental challenge for science in the 21st century. Research on OoL spans many disciplines, including chemistry, physics, biology,…
Determining Molecular Complexity using Assembly Theory and Spectroscopy
Michael Jirasek, Abhishek Sharma, Jessica R. Bame +9
Determining the complexity of molecules has important applications from molecular design to understanding the history of the process that led to the formation of the molecule. Curr…
Community Report from the Biosignatures Standards of Evidence Workshop
Victoria Meadows, Heather Graham, Victor Abrahamsson +72
The search for life beyond the Earth is the overarching goal of the NASA Astrobiology Program, and it underpins the science of missions that explore the environments of Solar Syste…
False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis
Searra Foote, Pritvik Sinhadc, Cole Mathis +1
The origin of life and the detection of alien life have historically been treated as separate scientific research problems. However, they are not strictly independent. Here, we dis…
The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures
Harrison B. Smith, Cole Mathis
The ultimate goal of astrobiology is to determine the distribution and diversity of life in the universe. But as the word "biosignature" suggests, what will be detected is not life…
Individual perception dynamics in drunk games
Alberto Antonioni, Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero, Cole Mathis +2
We study the effects of individual perceptions of payoffs in two-player games. In particular we consider the setting in which individuals' perceptions of the game are influenced by…
The Emergence of Life as a First Order Phase Transition
Cole Mathis, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Sara Imari Walker
It is well known that life on Earth alters its environment over evolutionary and geological timescales. An important open question is whether this is a result of evolutionary optim…