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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": 136468,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4a72685df3709add36d6f5866b6a22c1",
            "title": "Dark matter collisions may leave fingerprints inside galaxies",
            "description": "A new simulation tool lets scientists explore whether self-interacting dark matter could reshape galaxies from the inside out.",
            "content": "Dark matter still won’t show up in a telescope image, but its gravity is written all over the universe: in the way galaxies rotate, how clusters form, and how cosmic structure grows.\nA new study argues that if dark matter particles sometimes bump int... [7547 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-collisions-may-leave-fingerprints-inside-galaxies/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/01/26072039/Self-interacting-dark-matter.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-26T14:26:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1d7b81c63761a3273b20c4649f86aa43",
            "title": "How can the Sun contain so many elements without its heat destroying them?",
            "description": "Our star’s gravity counteracts the pressure of its radiation, keeping it in equilibrium and allowing it to hold onto most of its contents.",
            "content": "Since the Sun is so hot, how can it contain oxygen, carbon, and other elements without destroying them?\nBob Found\nIndian Harbour, Nova Scotia\nIf you were to take a random blob of gas and heat it to solar temperatures (roughly 10,000 degrees Fahrenhei... [1425 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-can-the-sun-contain-so-many-elements-without-destroying-them/",
            "image": "https://www.astronomy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ASY-SK0126_04-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-26T14:05:59Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a69c46820379fd6075b622dd9fbdedd1",
                "name": "Astronomy Magazine",
                "url": "https://www.astronomy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d9f1ece5099029cea610946ede81affe",
            "title": "Calibrating the Clocks: Reconciling Groundwater Age from Two Isotopes",
            "description": "A new quantitative model corrects for tracer-based age biases from 39Ar and 14C isotopes leading to more accurate estimates of groundwater residence times.",
            "content": "Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors.\nSource: Water Resources Research\nA crucial source of freshwater, groundwater is vulnerable to contamination and overuse. Knowing how long groundwater has been under ground i... [1416 chars]",
            "url": "https://eos.org/editor-highlights/calibrating-the-clocks-reconciling-groundwater-age-from-two-isotopes",
            "image": "https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Musy-et-al.-2025-Figure-4-final.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-26T14:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6a8444b86b244a6baee98642eeac94aa",
                "name": "eos.org",
                "url": "https://eos.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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