by Jaime E. Zla­mal — There is an or­gan­ism out there that is smaller than you, older than you, and that has a house that's prob­a­bly fancier than yours. Meet Emil­ia­nia hux­leyi, or Ehux. Ehux is a minis­cule coc­col­ithophore, a beau­ti­ful sin­gle-celled alga that doesn't get enough at­ten­tion in the world of mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy. The ten­dency…