Zimbabwe Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Zimbabwe 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 Zimbabwe. 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=zw&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=zw" \
  --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": "zw", "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: "zw",
    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"  => "zw",
    "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=zw&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": 2710,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9b37dd445b8d276bbec4b50a81e6e6d3",
            "title": "NASA's 3,200-pound Swift telescope could fall to Earth as soon as tonight, agency says",
            "description": "NASA's Swift Observatory is about to make a fiery reentry through Earth's atmosphere after a private mission to save it failed. Most of the spacecraft will burn up in orbit.",
            "content": "NASA's decades-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is rapidly falling out of orbit and could tumble back to Earth as early as tonight (Nov. 3), the space agency says.\nAccording to NASA's latest estimates, shared yesterday (Nov. 2), the roughly 3,200-p... [2477 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasas-3-200-pound-swift-telescope-could-fall-to-earth-as-soon-as-tonight-agency-says",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mVDW5MbGvYDYoj4pH3Wshm-2143-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T18:56:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "95993cee63c947c63f6bfe9192834ef8",
                "name": "Live Science",
                "url": "https://www.livescience.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8d7a54a0b12a0510f896f2a7879b1e21",
            "title": "Ants Spread Across the Planet, and Jumping Genes May Explain How",
            "description": "When an asteroid ended the dinosaurs, ants thrived, and scientists just uncovered a strange genetic mechanism hiding inside ant DNA that may explain how a creature smaller than a fingernail came to co...",
            "content": "The post Ants Spread Across the Planet, and Jumping Genes May Explain How appeared first on A-Z Animals.\nEarth's circumstances are always changing. Life on the planet is at the mercy of these changes, for better or worse. This produces role reversals... [5056 chars]",
            "url": "https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ants-spread-across-planet-jumping-173000017.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/e08e69db65f66e23b3ac659d180c2e51226ca33d1abea6808ebefeec2ccdee83/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_jpg/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fa_z_animals_articles_598%2F40791af2ade5e89571a140bd5d278005.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T17:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d0f7288d14ec8c674636416b7d8b268b",
                "name": "Yahoo News Singapore",
                "url": "https://sg.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6ddb7a80c79b658a1c32475d08f0e3e2",
            "title": "Japan’s newest female astronaut wants to speak Japanese on the moon",
            "description": "Ayu Yoneda, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s youngest astronaut, is mission-ready for her first flight.",
            "content": "Ever since Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in 1969, every word broadcast from the lunar surface has been spoken in English.\nAyu Yoneda, the Japanese space agency’s youngest astronaut at 31, envisions a different future.\n“If I’m able to go t... [310 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/11/03/japan/science-health/jaxa-yoneda-astronaut/",
            "image": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/japantimes/uploads/images/2026/11/03/571908.jpg?v=3.1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T13:20:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e11720774b511205644c3670b4b2266a",
                "name": "The Japan Times",
                "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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