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Canada Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

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API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 130138,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c77d3ecc600e1de0e3ade0131ba2cf7e",
            "title": "This Comox Valley fossil discovery forever changed paleontology in B.C.",
            "description": "The untold story behind a Comox Valley fossil discovery by Mike and Heather Trask and ‘the incredible importance of curiosity.’",
            "content": "In late autumn 1988, Richard Hebda — then head of botany at the Royal BC Museum — stepped into the living room of a man named Mike Trask following a report of an interesting fossil find on the Puntledge River.\nAccording to Hebda, when he shook hands ... [9844 chars]",
            "url": "https://thediscourse.ca/comox-valley/how-a-comox-valley-fossil-discovery-forever-changed-paleontology-in-b-c",
            "image": "https://d14tmmgoyu446o.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/04132357/Elasmosaur-in-Courtenay-Museum-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T21:43:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a90f82df53c215a3eff2dfc642242733",
                "name": "The Discourse.",
                "url": "https://thediscourse.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4887ecf13ccdaacafc07d1a60168c16c",
            "title": "Artemis II will secure Canada as major player in space exploration",
            "description": "Once the Artemis II mission takes off later this spring, it will cement Canada's place as a leader in space technology.",
            "content": "It’s been a long time since the last manned mission to the moon — over half-a-century.\nBut, we’ll have to wait a little longer after a technical problem grounded the Artemis II lunar mission on Tuesday.\nWhen it eventually takes-off, Artemis II will h... [1744 chars]",
            "url": "https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/02/04/artemis-ii-will-secure-canada-as-major-player-in-space-exploration/",
            "image": "https://kitchener.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/3/2024/02/20240216170224-65cfe0dc0e567548d4c808f6jpeg-e1770236586823.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T20:28:38Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "366e9317f808a4c3e5ebe9a87922f4f1",
                "name": "CityNews Kitchener",
                "url": "https://kitchener.citynews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3396151943c0409c0b887c48a121c6f6",
            "title": "Une entreprise russe affirme avoir développé une technologie permettant de contrôler les pigeons et d’en faire des \" biodrones \"",
            "description": "L’entreprise russe Neiry a présenté des pigeons dotés d’implants cérébraux, afin de contrôler leurs mouvements et leur orientation et en faire des « drones biologiques ».",
            "content": "Digne d’un film de science-fiction. L’entreprise russe Neiry, spécialisée dans les interfaces cerveau-machine, a présenté lors de sa conférence annuelle organisée fin 2025 ses nouveaux « biodrones », à savoir des « pigeons dirigeables grâce à un impl... [3184 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.leparisien.fr/high-tech/une-entreprise-russe-affirme-avoir-developpe-une-technologie-permettant-de-controler-les-pigeons-et-den-faire-des-biodrones-04-02-2026-DEGSN76C3RBXLGSIB3RT5FZXOE.php",
            "image": "https://www.leparisien.fr/resizer/lLIaV8G-HhLmrUe6ZgX2pteDyiU=/1200x675/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/leparisien/T4ZCPWXJKNHTVKLVOFEBOZFD7M.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T17:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "4c1a44e6e0f469dc804ccacf842c3b6f",
                "name": "Le Parisien",
                "url": "https://www.leparisien.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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