First the coronavirus, next... 'Gray Goo?'

QUICK question: did you have "self-replicating nanobots that could potentially consume the entire Earth" on your 2021 bingo card? I sure didn't. Yet, here we are. Or so it seems.

As if there were not enough frightening indignities in the world to contend with — Covid-19, Republicans, who damned Mariah Carey Christmas songs — scientists have presented us with an entirely new horror. In a study published in the journal, "PNAS," this past Monday, a team of researchers from the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University announced that "living robots" they created last year were now able to reproduce "in a way not seen in plants and animals."