November 10, 2020 updates Posted on November 10, 2020 by Doug Loss First, Do Nothing: A Passive Protocol for First Contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026596462030031X NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-new-science-teams-for-astrobiology-research Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/icar/ Radiogenic Heating and Its Influence on Rocky Planet Dynamos and Habitability https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc251 Life’s irreducible structure: Where are we, five decades later? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000250 The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-Dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03621 Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD209458b with ESPRESSO: Evidence for Na, TiO, or both https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03746 Identifying Bound Stellar Companions to Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars Using Speckle Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03903 A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-Eccentricity Multi-Transiting Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04404 Optical Verification Experiments of Sub-scale Starshades https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04432