United Kingdom Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from the United Kingdom 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 the United Kingdom. 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=gb&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=gb" \
  --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": "gb", "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: "gb",
    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"  => "gb",
    "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=gb&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": 18740,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7fbb0b93a74492c20fc6442a69d7367f",
            "title": "Table made from Shakespeare’s mulberry tree found in bungalow",
            "description": "Woman in her 90s puts ‘beautiful’ antique up for auction after using it for dining in her West Sussex home",
            "content": "An antique table made from the mulberry tree William Shakespeare planted in his garden 417 years ago has been found in a bungalow.\nThe round table was crafted from leftover wood in the 18th century after a clergyman had the tree felled because he gre... [2216 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/14/table-shakespeare-mulberry-tree-found-bungalow/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/10/14/TELEMMGLPICT000507300420_17919687693710_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqdQ8YrSsR88w3pzEpBtW9Vv4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T09:43:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c9abbc49669c2a06c8d0c51401c21405",
            "title": "Isle of Wight fossil identified as new dinosaur species",
            "description": "Invictibellatrix would have been up to four metres long with feathers and had 20cm claws.",
            "content": "A new species of dinosaur - a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger - has been identified from a fossil found on the Isle of Wight more than 100 years ago.\nThe dinosaur, named Invictibellatrix amberina, is described in a new paper in the jou... [2821 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmvgx70v9vrjo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/118f/live/511ce960-c701-11f1-b4dd-e786ec6f11b1.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T05:09:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7afed17df6d89cb201c44a2a9e5dbca6",
            "title": "T Rex’s tiny cousin discovered from fossil ‘sat in drawer’ for a century",
            "description": "Invictibellatrix amberina discovered from fossil acquired by Natural History Museum in 1924",
            "content": "The fossil of a human-sized dinosaur that resembled a Tyrannosaurus Rex has been found in a drawer of the Natural History Museum.\nThe partial fossil skull of Invictibellatrix amberina was acquired by the museum in 1924, but forgotten about until rece... [3869 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/14/dinosaur-species-isle-of-wight-fossil/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/10/14/TELEMMGLPICT000507139365_17919404331490_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqsCWULWLts4NxYrSD_li1_kXKs-kfZc8-6osxfYHX9Cw.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T01:46:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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