{"id":1703,"date":"2026-07-23T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:00:04","slug":"sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of St Andrews and Universit\u00e9 de Neuch\u00e2tel has uncovered the mechanism that allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position just under the ocean surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-sperm-whales-restful-vertical.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org &#8211; latest science and technology news stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of St Andrews and Universit\u00e9 de Neuch\u00e2tel has uncovered the mechanism that allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}