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Canada Science News API

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

Get API key for the Canada Science News API

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": 131174,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "aa2a269f9b52e675407f0a0329316489",
            "title": "Researchers make stunning discovery while studying popular Christmas trees: 'May influence the accumulation'",
            "description": "Researchers discovered that Norway spruce trees can accumulate gold in their needles thanks to soil bacteria.",
            "content": "Researchers have found that Norway spruce trees can accumulate gold in their needles.\nThe study was published in Environmental Microbiome and detailed how soil bacteria produce gold in the spruces' needles. This process is called biomineralization. B... [2601 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/norway-spruce-trees-gold-bacteria-microbes/",
            "image": "https://www.thecooldown.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Norway-spruce-treesimage-recHpwtdYRgwB4kSN-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-23T21:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e1ead52d96666e44f50f0649131c4e28",
                "name": "The Cool Down",
                "url": "https://www.thecooldown.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c35a817a98960870167a238c11ee5f2f",
            "title": "How parakeets make new friends in a surprisingly human way",
            "description": "Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social bonds over time. The results show a clear pattern of cautious exploration echoing similar studies in other animals. Even for birds, making a friend can be a delicate dance.",
            "content": "The findings appear in the journal Biology Letters.\nWhy Social Bonds Matter for Parrots\n\"There can be a lot of benefits to being social, but these friendships have to start somewhere,\" said Claire O'Connell, the study's lead author and a doctoral stu... [2800 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251123115434.htm",
            "image": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/monk-parakeet-preens-friend.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-23T19:32:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "81a05fd2712964dbdb32b1c6a27646fd",
                "name": "ScienceDaily",
                "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ff64b3d0071cd91329850689824a0822",
            "title": "Wildfires raged on after Earth's worst mass extinction",
            "description": "A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once thought.",
            "content": "Fire once seemed strangely absent from Earth’s history right after the worst mass extinction the planet had ever seen.\nThis stretch of time, about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic, looked like a world with hardly any wildfires. The rocks s... [5626 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/wildfires-raged-on-after-earths-worst-mass-extinction/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2025/11/23114939/Triassic-fire.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-23T18:56:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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