February 8, 2022 updates Posted on February 8, 2022 by Doug Loss Framework for Expediting Discovery of Optimal Solutions with Blackbox Algorithms in Non-Topology Photonic Inverse Design https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01819 A Search for Pre-Transit Absorption Features in Spectra of Hot Jupiters https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/9447 The crewed journey to Mars and its implications for the human microbiome https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-021-01222-7 Assessing planetary complexity and potential agnostic biosignatures using epsilon machines https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01559-x The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/cosmic-significance-of-directed-panspermia-should-humanity-spread-life-to-other-solar-systems/93E21369EDF7598A5D312889728AB5D0 Intelligence as a planetary scale process https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process/5077C784D7FAC55F96072F7A7772C5E5 Venusian phosphine: a ‘wow!’ signal in chemistry? https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S1042650722011017 Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets I https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03022 The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03309 A Search for Technosignatures toward the Galactic Centre at 150 MHz https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03324 TESS Transit Timing of Hundreds of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03401 The Cosmic Hitchhikers Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Civilizations Using Free-Floating Planets for Interstellar Colonization https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03364
