Ghana Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Ghana 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 Ghana. 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=gh&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=gh" \
  --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": "gh", "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: "gh",
    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"  => "gh",
    "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=gh&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": 2562,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "885927bb8db4ef6c2c7d154809c2d39c",
            "title": "Physicist J.C. Séamus Davis wins 2026 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize",
            "description": "Davis won the Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for his pioneering research into quantum materials research and experimental physics.",
            "content": "J.C. Séamus Davis, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor Emeritus in physics in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded the 2026 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for “outstanding and sustained cont... [1074 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/11/physicist-jc-seamus-davis-wins-2026-michael-faraday-medal-and-prize",
            "image": "https://news.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/story_thumbnail_lg/public/2026-11/jc-seamus-davis201-walking.jpg?h=f426d813&itok=6iC20yCv",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T15:28:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c8734064e8d01809429347376eb13d38",
                "name": "Cornell Chronicle",
                "url": "https://news.cornell.edu"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8f24129c4944d0f65bc2c09c16406b92",
            "title": "Stone and water together shaped where early humans settled in Arabia's desert, study finds",
            "description": "A 1,500-km survey of Arabia's Rub' al Khali found ancient lakes but no tools, showing early humans needed stone as much as water.",
            "content": "Early humans crossed the world’s largest sand sea with plenty of fresh water around, yet they left nothing behind. A team led by researchers at the University of Vienna and the University of the Algarve now says the missing ingredient was stone.\nThe ... [2849 chars]",
            "url": "https://archaeologymag.com/2026/11/stone-water-early-human-settlement-desert/",
            "image": "https://archaeologymag.com/wp-content/uploads/stone-water-settlement-desert-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T14:43:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "396fee5c24f8a207225fa4e214be73d2",
                "name": "Archaeology News Online Magazine",
                "url": "https://archaeologymag.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "76f875016762dcbd1da2ee70061adb86",
            "title": "Beetle poop may have helped shape millions of years of yeast evolution",
            "description": "University at Buffalo scientists have found evidence that different species of yeast have shared genes originally acquired from an ancient virus—and the guts and droppings of beetles may have helped make it happen.",
            "content": "University at Buffalo scientists have found evidence that different species of yeast have shared genes originally acquired from an ancient virus—and the guts and droppings of beetles may have helped make it happen.\nPublished in Molecular Biology and ... [4879 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-beetle-poop-millions-years-yeast.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2026/beetle-poop-may-have-h.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T14:40:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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