Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Archaea are much more closely related to the eukaryotes than bacteria, see e.g. Figure "Coral of life by János Podani (2019)" which shows how archaea diverged from eukarya almost 2 By after LUCA!

It therefore appears that the mitochondrial endosymbiosis happened when a bacteria like cell joined up with an archaea.

Some notable points in which archaea look more like eukaryotes than bacteria:

The most practical/precise volt standard.

It motivated the definition of the ampere in the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units

Good NIST articles about it: (archive)

The wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_voltage_standard contains amazing schematics of the device, apparently made by the US Government.

Can be used as a very precise magnetometer.

There are high temperature yttrium barium copper oxide ones that work on liquid nitrogen.

This is really good.

It allows the client to prepare a single request that gets all the data it wants to fill up a given webpage, rather than doing several separate requests.

So it only gets exactly what it needs, and in a single request.

Very sweet. This is the future of the web.

Was a direct tech predecessor to the iPhone.

Nice looking and expensive operating system by Apple. Ciro Santilli believes that:

The story of how OS X was ported to x86 from PowerPC with large initial work up to boot by a single man in the year 2000, John Kullmann, is really worth reading: www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answer/Kim-Scheinberg on Quora, see also:

Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006) part 5 "Murder or suicide" mentions that the key events that leads to apoptosis is when certain proteins normally present in the inner mitochondrial membrane spill out, and that this often happens when free radicals are produced in excess: the cell is really not doing well in those cases. This point suggests that the initial mitochondrial endosymbiosis happened due to a parasite that lived inside another cell. It mentions that even today we see parasites kill the host cell when they feel that the cell does not have many nutrients. This frees the parasites to then infect other cells.

Usually noted D-something, L-something, e.g. L-alanine, D-glutamine.

List of the sub-journals at: journals.aps.org/browse

The layered one.