A habitable world next door?
More than you needed to know about the smudge of light that might be a planet in the habitable zone of the nearest Sun-like star
Paper Roundup July 2025: 3I/ATLAS "fanfiction," arsenic life retraction, and K2-18b
Every month, I collect interesting, fun, rage-inducing, or otherwise noteworthy papers in complexity, astrobiology, and origins. Inclusion is not endorsement. Weird suggestions, glaring omissions, and typos are 100% human error and 0% AI hallucination. Think something should be included in next month's newsletter? Shoot me an email at
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