Canada Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Canada 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 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);
}

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"  => "ca",
    "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=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": 163066,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7dcda1c0b9ff7543cf646802041346b3",
            "title": "How the nasal microbiome can help potentially harmful bacteria thrive",
            "description": "Our noses are home to many different species of bacteria living side by side. One of them may be S. aureus. Many people carry this bacterium without knowing it, although it can cause serious infections. Why S. aureus colonizes some people persistently but not others remains only partly understood.",
            "content": "Our noses are home to many different species of bacteria living side by side. One of them may be S. aureus. Many people carry this bacterium without knowing it, although it can cause serious infections. Why S. aureus colonizes some people persistentl... [1564 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-nasal-microbiome-potentially-bacteria.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2026/nasal-microbiome-when.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:40:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ce09e542285ce89bda267a5f5d799cbe",
            "title": "Change: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Is No Longer a Figure of Fun",
            "description": "History professor Jessica Riskin sees neo-Darwinism as starting to give way to awareness of a variety of paths for evolution.",
            "content": "Recently, we’ve noticed a distinct discomfort with Darwinism — the view that natural selection acting on random mutation explains all of life. For example, on its 50th anniversary, both Scientific American and Nature had issues with ultra-Darwinist R... [6400 chars]",
            "url": "https://mindmatters.ai/2026/11/change-jean-baptiste-lamarck-is-no-longer-a-figure-of-fun/",
            "image": "https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/statue-en-bronze-de-lamarck-a-paris-france-538636691-stockpack-adobestock-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:33:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dbee2bbbaa681f91c88f15b7f66f71d3",
                "name": "Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence",
                "url": "https://mindmatters.ai"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bc242ee4575a0e8c15de905bfb0b73ba",
            "title": "This Forgotten Cold War Nuclear Base Gives Us An Unexpected Perspective On Earth's Climate",
            "description": "A Cold War drilling operation for a project meant to house nuclear weapons produced some samples that scientists are still learning from today.",
            "content": "During the Cold War, the U.S. Army devised a secret plan to hide nuclear missiles inside of Greenland's ice sheet. While the missiles never actually arrived, scientists found something more interesting below the surface: sediments that could teach us... [4175 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bgr.com/2305939/cold-war-nuclear-base-samples-greenland-climate/",
            "image": "https://www.bgr.com/img/gallery/this-forgotten-cold-war-nuclear-base-gives-us-an-unexpected-perspective-on-earths-climate/l-intro-1793739507.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:17:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ba1fc1e1ea8c9654aaee71ab3bc255eb",
                "name": "BGR",
                "url": "https://www.bgr.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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