Botswana Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Botswana 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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This request returns the current top science headlines from Botswana. 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=bw&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=bw" \
  --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": "bw", "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: "bw",
    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"  => "bw",
    "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=bw&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": 2737,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b1f99c0b8fc67becbfe55c0b5e936685",
            "title": "‘Beam combiner’ PIC proves powerful for astronomical interferometry",
            "description": "Can a special photonic integrated circuit (PIC) link CHARA telescopes to form one powerful instrument for on-sky observations of the universe? Yes—and it enables measurements ...",
            "content": "An ultrafast-laser-written “beam combiner” chip created by Heriot-Watt University’s Robert Thomson, a professor of photonics, and Aurélien Benoit, a postdoctoral research associate, in Scotland was recently put to the test during first-of-its-kind on... [6524 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.laserfocusworld.com/optics/article/55416223/beam-combiner-pic-proves-powerful-for-astronomical-interferometry",
            "image": "https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2026/11/6ae9fb189c584cba5b133600-2701_02lfw_wn_3_1.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill=blur&w=1200&h=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T05:14:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "12ce831420881f968b51601fcbb1c643",
                "name": "Laser Focus World",
                "url": "https://www.laserfocusworld.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9c7eb2277acf25d33da16b50b7d8d372",
            "title": "Nutrient-dependent bet-hedging between reproduction and sporulation in Bacillus subtilis",
            "description": "To thrive in nature, bacteria must constantly balance growth with long-term survival in response to nutrient availability. Although sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is a classical survival strategy, how the sporulation program is regulated by nutrient conditions during exponential growth remains elusive. Here we show that the Spo0A-mediated sporulation program is strongly modulated during exponential phase across different carbon sources and is accompanied by pronounced population heterogeneity on poor carbons. We further identify the transition-state regulator AbrB as a key modulator that integrates growth and sporulation, promoting growth under favorable conditions while facilitating sporulation under poor nutrients. On good carbon sources, AbrB optimizes cellular resource allocation by directly suppressing the unnecessary expression of adaptive pathways. In contrast, on poor carbon sources, where the Spo0A-signaling pathway is strongly activated, AbrB promotes sporulation by repressing the expression of a plasmid-encoded Rap-family phosphatase gene, which otherwise interferes with the Spo0A signaling pathway. Together, these findings reveal a dual-control strategy that fine-tunes the trade-off between growth and survival and promotes bet-hedging under poor growth conditions, with important implications for both fundamental biology and synthetic biology.",
            "content": "This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China 32470038, 32370044, 32270034, 32570029, the Excellent Research Group Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China (No. 2026AFA006), Major Project for ... [1598 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-11213-9?error=cookies_not_supported&code=a9418bd6-da9b-4d3b-88a3-3b09f0857249",
            "image": "https://www.nature.com/oscar-static/images/favicons/nature/favicon-48x48-b52890008c.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T17:26:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7abf0df285fbe93cdccffcc7c4088737",
                "name": "Nature",
                "url": "https://www.nature.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9c99487bcc076afeea98f585841dd09b",
            "title": "‘Swift’ telescope to crash into Earth after NASA rescue attempt fails",
            "description": "The scientific satellite is expected to re-enter the atmosphere late Tuesday night, in a band near the equator that covers parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America",
            "content": "The Swift space telescope is about to be engulfed by Earth’s atmosphere. After nearly 22 years of service, the NASA observatory will re-enter the atmosphere uncontrolled in the coming days, at an unspecified time after sunset on Tuesday. This is the ... [3975 chars]",
            "url": "https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-11-03/swift-telescope-to-crash-into-earth-after-nasa-rescue-attempt-fails.html",
            "image": "https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/FTBZZQ4KPVPYBIWEQ4YH55P2UM.jpg?auth=faf4e5282d63477230363a91680b789488c38ab307cfdb5c37b7eeb7b442a357&width=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T13:16:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c31d6460bd6518296c8800041219f9e7",
                "name": "EL PAÍS English",
                "url": "https://english.elpais.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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