South Africa Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from South Africa 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 South Africa. 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=za&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=za" \
  --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": "za", "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: "za",
    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"  => "za",
    "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=za&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": 6640,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a1ce2cb0a61cc65125a79815dc9af184",
            "title": "Space waves reveal weaknesses in Earth's magnetic shield",
            "description": "A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland sheds light on a little-studied aspect of space weather.",
            "content": "A new study by scientists at the University of Oulu in Finland sheds light on a little-understood aspect of space weather: where powerful waves form at the edge of Earth’s magnetic shield and where the solar wind can break through it.\nWaves at the Ma... [2214 chars]",
            "url": "https://universemagazine.com/en/space-waves-reveal-weaknesses-in-earths-magnetic-shield/",
            "image": "https://universemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/space-waves-reveal-whe.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T10:21:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "687b815419a86d64780835373f4bda4f",
                "name": "Universe Space Tech",
                "url": "https://universemagazine.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "532e6906bb4270b374a3bf23d9184657",
            "title": "old radio burst “hit” Earth",
            "description": "Astronomers have detected and confirmed the most distant known fast radio burst—FRB 20240304B—which originates from a magnetar.",
            "content": "From time to time, astronomers detect strange, almost ghostly radio signals from deep space. They flare up and vanish almost instantly, leaving no time for investigation. These phenomena, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are among the most mysterio... [4000 chars]",
            "url": "https://universemagazine.com/en/existence-of-a-radio-burst-at-a-colossal-distance-from-earth-confirmed/",
            "image": "https://universemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-j_j4d25xowy-unsplash.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T06:54:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "687b815419a86d64780835373f4bda4f",
                "name": "Universe Space Tech",
                "url": "https://universemagazine.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3d6d6e0951b8ca0a1869a3344a445a0f",
            "title": "Isle of Wight fossil sheds light on enigmatic meat-eating dinosaurs",
            "description": "Oct 13 (Reuters) - The partial skull of a tiger-sized predator that prowled what is now the Isle of Wight off England's southern coast about 120 million years ago is giving scientists a better understanding of an enigmatic group of meat-eating dinosaurs known for running down prey and ripping them apart with massive hand claws.",
            "content": "By Will Dunham\nResearchers said the fossil belongs to a species they have named Invictibellatrix amberina, an early member of the lineage of Cretaceous Period carnivorous dinosaurs called megaraptorans. Invictibellatrix adds to the knowledge of skull... [4441 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-14-isle-of-wight-fossil-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-meat-eating-dinosaurs/",
            "image": "https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/nln4fpJdTySRYlXTsQUl8GQtExQ=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2999/8836328_343056.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T02:33:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "014a1578e982d66b3e13de65ae3a28a6",
                "name": "Daily Maverick",
                "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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