Australia Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Australia with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top science headlines from Australia. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=science&country=au&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=au" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "science", "country": "au", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "science",
    country: "au",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "science",
    "country"  => "au",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=science&country=au&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 99340,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "000f418dd8b3f0fca77c20cf9deef69f",
            "title": "Tiny Melt Traces Reveal Colorado Plateau's Explosive Past",
            "description": "Deep beneath the Earth's surface, some minerals hold clues to processes that happened millions of years ago. One such mineral is lawsonite, which",
            "content": "Deep beneath the Earth's surface, some minerals hold clues to processes that happened millions of years ago. One such mineral is lawsonite, which forms under high pressure and relatively low temperatures. What makes it significant is its ability to s... [3167 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/tiny-melt-traces-reveal-colorado-plateaus-1771572/",
            "image": "https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/images/260_Tiny_Melt_Traces_t.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T02:12:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6884aafee63ce708657f919024d584c7",
            "title": "Researchers identify nearly 600 genetic differences in human chimpanzee and gorilla brains",
            "description": "Human and ape brain organoids reveal gene-regulatory differences linked to the shape of neural stem cells and neuron production.",
            "content": "Human, chimpanzee and gorilla brain organoids revealed differences in how developing stem cells regulate shared genes.\nResearchers identified 599 candidate regulatory regions with greater accessibility in human basal radial glia and tested two cell-s... [10311 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/researchers-identify-nearly-600-genetic-differences-in-human-chimpanzee-and-gorilla-brains/",
            "image": "https://www.thebrighterside.news/uploads/2026/11/brain-organoids.png?auto=webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:07:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "112bf679e5854b6527eea31fa42dbada",
                "name": "The Brighter Side of News",
                "url": "https://www.thebrighterside.news"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6003b5589995a320581040a28f0ac5e5",
            "title": "Melodie Yashar on designing extraterrestrial architecture",
            "description": "Ahead of the opening of Powerhouse Parramatta’s opening exhibition, Task Eternal, space architect Melodie Yashar shares her approach to designing environments on the Moon and on Mars, with a view to how this approach can be applied to architecture on Earth.",
            "content": "Emily Wong: Melody, you work at the intersection of architecture, design, and technology and are often described as a “space architect.” What led you to this career path?\nMelodie Yashar: My career into space architecture transpired very organically. ... [8500 chars]",
            "url": "https://architectureau.com/articles/melodie-yashar-on-designing-extraterrestrial-architecture/",
            "image": "https://media5.architecturemedia.net/site_media/media/cache/ec/1f/ec1f07ab5a8f3ea779ffc8dec22a5246.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:48:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e2eb640b5737a741bd7c8a8dbf4846fc",
                "name": "ArchitectureAu",
                "url": "https://architectureau.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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