Kenya Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Kenya 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 Kenya. 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=ke&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ke" \
  --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": "ke", "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: "ke",
    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"  => "ke",
    "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=ke&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": 3188,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4e42d38dddd4d63c7e4d7575d34f6947",
            "title": "Local DNA motion inside the cell stays nearly constant throughout interphase",
            "description": "Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin. During interphase, the period between cell divisions, DNA is replicated and the nucleus becomes larger. At the same time, cells must continuously carry out essential genome functions such as transcription, DNA replication and DNA repair. How the behavior of genomic DNA is maintained during these large changes has remained unclear.",
            "content": "Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin. During interphase, the period between cell divisions, DNA is replicated and the nucleus becomes larger. At the same time, cells must co... [3447 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-local-dna-motion-cell-stays.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/local-dna-motion-insid.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T17:00:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d924b5f8522fea48c031f120362c3e63",
            "title": "Not all early birds evolved toward better flight, Jurassic fossil suggests",
            "description": "A study published in Nature discusses the newly discovered species, Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, which lived during the Late Jurassic period (150–148 million years ago). The research suggests that the evolution of the avian body plan was not a straightforward progression toward improved flight capabilities, but a complex process involving the exploration of different ecological niches, including some that did not require flight.",
            "content": "For early birds, evolution wasn’t always about becoming better flyers. This conclusion is supported by the recent discovery of a remarkably well-preserved, 150-million-year-old bird fossil from Fujian Province, China, which is challenging long-held a... [3256 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1147488",
            "image": "https://mediasvc.eurekalert.org/Api/v1/Multimedia/5fd6345f-6ef1-4d24-a414-5f7dd9438487/Rendition/thumbnail/Content/Public",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T16:04:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6a95657332d8b1bd75fe6a91118746ff",
                "name": "EurekAlert!",
                "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5d7e9ef883cb08997933b0f16fe62e05",
            "title": "Tiny implants can use the body itself to talk to each other",
            "description": "Researchers made a rat’s front-leg movement trigger its back leg. The experiment could point to a new kind of body-based network to connect implants.",
            "content": "Medical implants are getting smaller and smarter. But getting them to talk to each other remains tricky.\nNow, researchers have developed a way for tiny implantable devices to send electrical signals through the body’s own tissues. The approach could ... [2349 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencenews.org/article/implants-body-electric-signal-tissue",
            "image": "https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/100626_BP_nervoussystems_main.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T15:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "69f23d909f873b30a69bc9ed4b5f2f7a",
                "name": "Science News",
                "url": "https://www.sciencenews.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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