The inevitable journey to being

A planetary perspective on Earth evolution: Lid Tectonics before Plate Tectonics

(2013) John D.A. Piper   TECTONOPHYSICS

The Habitability of Our Earth and Other Earths: Astrophysical, Geochemical, Geophysical, and Biological Limits on Planet Habitability

(2012) Charles H. Lineweaver et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Life defined

(2012) Andrew Moore   BIOESSAYS

Cation distribution and mixing thermodynamics in Fe/Ni thiospinels

(2012) Saima Haider et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Water confined between sheets of mackinawite FeS minerals

(2012) Carsten Wittekindt et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Carbonated ferric green rust as a new material for efficient phosphate removal

(2012) K. Barthélémy et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Evidence against a chondritic Earth

(2012) Ian H. Campbell et al.   NATURE

Crystal structure of a membrane-embedded H+-translocating pyrophosphatase

(2012) Shih-Ming Lin et al.   NATURE

Life in the hydrated suboceanic mantle

(2012) Bénédicte Ménez et al.   Nature Geoscience

Pathways to Earth-Like Atmospheres

(2012) Helmut Lammer et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

A Deeply Branching Thermophilic Bacterium with an Ancient Acetyl-CoA Pathway Dominates a Subsurface Ecosystem

(2012) Hideto Takami et al.   PLoS One

RNA Folding and Catalysis Mediated by Iron (II)

(2012) Shreyas S. Athavale et al.   PLoS One

Differentiating biotic from abiotic methane genesis in hydrothermally active planetary surfaces

(2012) C. Oze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Alternating electron and proton transfer steps in photosynthetic water oxidation

(2012) A. Klauss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Structure and Catalytic Cycle of a Sodium-Pumping Pyrophosphatase

(2012) J. Kellosalo et al.   SCIENCE

Electron Small Polarons and Their Mobility in Iron (Oxyhydr)oxide Nanoparticles

(2012) J. E. Katz et al.   SCIENCE

Acetogenesis in the Energy-Starved Deep Biosphere – A Paradox?

(2012) Mark Alexander Lever   Frontiers in Microbiology

Redox bifurcations: Mechanisms and importance to life now, and at its origin

(2011) Wolfgang Nitschke et al.   BIOESSAYS

New model for molybdenum behavior in euxinic waters

(2011) George R. Helz et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Respiratory complex I: ‘steam engine’ of the cell?

(2011) Rouslan G Efremov et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Abiotic methane flux from the Chimaera seep and Tekirova ophiolites (Turkey): Understanding gas exhalation from low temperature serpentinization and implications for Mars

(2011) Giuseppe Etiope et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

U–Th systematics and 230Th ages of carbonate chimneys at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2011) Kristin A. Ludwig et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Atmospheric oxygenation caused by a change in volcanic degassing pressure

(2011) Fabrice Gaillard et al.   NATURE

The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth’s atmosphere

(2011) Dustin Trail et al.   NATURE

Design, Fabrication, and Test of a Hydrothermal Reactor for Origin-of-Life Experiments

(2010) Randall E. Mielke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

(2010) M. J. RUSSELL et al.   Geobiology

Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from the PACMANUS, Northeast Pual and Vienna Woods hydrothermal fields, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea

(2010) Eoghan P. Reeves et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Formate in Alkaline Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Cells

(2010) S. R. Narayanan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY

The “green” phylogenetic clade of Rieske/cytb complexes

(2010) W. Nitschke et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Thermal Trap for DNA Replication

(2010) Christof B. Mast et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methanation of carbon dioxide: an overview

(2010) Wang Wei et al.   Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering

A model for C–O–H fluid in the Earth’s mantle

(2009) Chi Zhang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Oxidation modes and thermodynamics of FeII–III oxyhydroxycarbonate green rust: Dissolution–precipitation versus in situ deprotonation

(2009) Christian Ruby et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Elevated concentrations of formate, acetate and dissolved organic carbon found at the Lost City hydrothermal field

(2009) Susan Q. Lang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Hydrothermal Focusing of Chemical and Chemiosmotic Energy, Supported by Delivery of Catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, Forced Life to Emerge

(2009) Wolfgang Nitschke et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The organisation of proton motive and non-proton motive redox loops in prokaryotic respiratory systems

(2008) Jörg Simon et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Predicting the conformations of peptides and proteins in early evolution. A review article submitted to Biology Direct

(2008) E James Milner-White et al.   Biology Direct

Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars

(2008) L.T. Elkins-Tanton   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Carbonate and sulphate green rusts—Mechanisms of oxidation and reduction

(2008) Hervé Antony et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

Abiotic ammonium formation in the presence of Ni-Fe metals and alloys and its implications for the Hadean nitrogen cycle

(2008) Alexander Smirnov et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

(2008) Julius S. Lipp et al.   NATURE

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Collisional erosion and the non-chondritic composition of the terrestrial planets

(2008) H. St.C O'Neill et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2008) G. Proskurowski et al.   SCIENCE

Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink?

(2008) Anne-Lise Ducluzeau et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES