Canada Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Canada 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 Canada. 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=ca&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ca" \
  --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": "ca", "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: "ca",
    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"  => "ca",
    "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=ca&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": 160616,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b28d255fa416ae19c4ace9a14531d3a4",
            "title": "What the puff is that? Huge ball-like mushrooms sprouting up everywhere",
            "description": "Believe it or not, these giant white balls are mushrooms and they are highly sought after by foragers.",
            "content": "The scientific term for these huge puffballs is Calvatia Gigantea, which translates from Latin as \"giant bald head\"—exactly what they resemble.\nThey appear in late summer and fall and like many mushrooms, they grow after a good rain. The huge mushroo... [2622 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/puff-huge-ball-mushrooms-sprouting-001913129.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/ab9f4e1c2fe48a45f585a870f52b8e1a9a960a5583defdbe88ff752a3cea901d/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_weather_network_616%2F8907f0a36dfe73c62093e52348a59c4f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "eb85e4ec19bf4fecc7be054c65e6e6df",
            "title": "En colmatant leur tunnel avec 1 400 t de résine en 1997, les Suédois ont littéralement paralysé les vaches d'au-dessus",
            "description": "Quand on bouche une fuite, on s'attend à ce que le problème s'arrête là. En 1997, sur la côte ouest de la Suède, j'ai vu l'inverse se produire, et ce sont les vaches qui en ont payé le prix. More",
            "content": "Quand on bouche une fuite, on s’attend à ce que le problème s’arrête là. Au Hallandsåsen, sur la côte ouest de la Suède, c’est l’inverse qui s’est produit en 1997. On y a injecté 1 400 tonnes de Rhoca-Gil dans les fissures de la roche, et c’est un po... [4987 chars]",
            "url": "https://sciencepost.fr/en-colmatant-leur-tunnel-avec-1-400-t-de-resine-en-1997-les-suedois-ont-litteralement-paralyse-les-vaches-d-au-dessus/",
            "image": "https://sciencepost.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/en-colmatant-leur-tunnel-avec-1-400-t-de-resine-en-1997-les-suedois-ont-litteralement-paralyse-les-v.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:18:23Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "ebd9e031b1e8cb269acbe26ced3d8294",
                "name": "Sciencepost",
                "url": "https://sciencepost.fr"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ae721a4769cb0802b615220e0629b8cc",
            "title": "Why NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is so unique",
            "description": "Western University PhD candidate Samantha Lambier explains what makes NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope so unique.",
            "content": "Look up at the night sky with your naked eye and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the universe is in constant flux. Stars drift through space, orbiting the centre of the Milky Way as planets orbit them. They rotate, showing off spots on their ... [5037 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.westernu.ca/2026/10/nasa-roman-space-telescope-changing-universe/",
            "image": "https://news.westernu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/MilkyWay1200w-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T19:48:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9b98a26676e9742f68f5bfde859e2664",
                "name": "Western University",
                "url": "https://news.westernu.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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