Australia Science News API

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

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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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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": 86574,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5b594384c4daaa8666214300b1d08b03",
            "title": "Turning Up Heat On Chickpea Yield",
            "description": "PhD Candidate Callum Jamie, Dr Millicent Smith and Dr Shanice Van Haeften at the Plant Futures Facility. (Photo credit: Megan Pope, UQ ) A University",
            "content": "A University of Queensland study has outlined a practical pathway for accelerating the development of heat adapted chickpeas using data from new ‘omic’ technologies.\nPhD candidate Callum Jamie said the suite of technologies offered tremendous opportu... [2595 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/turning-up-heat-on-chickpea-yield/",
            "image": "https://news.uq.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2026-10/chickpea-crop.jpg?h=a81fead4&itok=gnPw37Pp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:19:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fcc9357644c6fcea43a610731824930",
                "name": "The National Tribune",
                "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0f12e5eb5e3e9d7c6ca75b82fc641b64",
            "title": "Turning Up Heat On Chickpea Yield",
            "description": "PhD Candidate Callum Jamie, Dr Millicent Smith and Dr Shanice Van Haeften at the Plant Futures Facility.(Photo credit: Megan Pope, UQ\n)\nA University",
            "content": "A University of Queensland study has outlined a practical pathway for accelerating the development of heat adapted chickpeas using data from new 'omic' technologies.\nPhD candidate Callum Jamie said the suite of technologies offered tremendous opportu... [2595 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/turning-up-heat-on-chickpea-yield-1760562/",
            "image": "https://news.uq.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2026-10/chickpea-crop.jpg?h=a81fead4&itok=gnPw37Pp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:16:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4d02f22498edb1218a18f87075af68a5",
            "title": "Flash of Light Brings Order to Quantum Material",
            "description": "AUBURN, AL – Physicists at Auburn University have used flashes of laser light to bring order to tiny electrically charged \"islands\" inside a crystal",
            "content": "AUBURN, AL – Physicists at Auburn University have used flashes of laser light to bring order to tiny electrically charged \"islands\" inside a crystal. The discovery helps answer a decades-old question about how the material organizes itself and shows ... [3740 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/flash-of-light-brings-order-to-quantum-material-1760533/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=images.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1460925895917-afdab827c52f%3Fixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26amp%3Bixlib%3Drb-1.2.1%26amp%3Bauto%3Dformat%26amp%3Bfit%3Dcrop%26amp%3Bw%3D702%26amp%3Bq%3D80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T20:50:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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