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": 148970,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "464ff195f8ef20e58a2a56b4383409d4",
            "title": "If you removed all the empty space from the atoms in every human being on Earth, the entire species would fit inside a sugar cube - and it would still weigh what 8 billion people weigh",
            "description": "The arithmetic survives scrutiny, but the procedure for compressing eight billion humans into a single sugar cube reveals something stranger than the headline suggests.",
            "content": "The claim is arithmetically correct, and that is the least interesting thing about it. If every atom in every human body on Earth were stripped of its electron shells and crushed until the nuclei touched, the eight billion people currently alive woul... [9508 chars]",
            "url": "https://spacedaily.com/j-if-you-removed-all-the-empty-space-from-the-atoms-in-every-human-being-on-earth-the-entire-species-would-fit-inside-a-sugar-cube-and-it-would-still-weigh-what-8-billion-people-weigh/",
            "image": "https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/j-if-you-removed-all-the-empty-space-from-the-atom.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T01:30:53Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e78ce7d66fa4cc7a845a221fd1505b06",
                "name": "Space Daily",
                "url": "https://spacedaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5cfd74976412d446774f6b42d0f307ef",
            "title": "Europe Was Never a Giant Dark Forest, New 20-Million-Year Study Reveals",
            "description": "A comprehensive new study shows that Europe’s landscapes have been shaped by grasslands and open woodlands for more than 20 million years, suggesting that modern afforestation efforts go against this long-standing ecological pattern.",
            "content": "A comprehensive new study shows that Europe’s landscapes have been shaped by grasslands and open woodlands for more than 20 million years, suggesting that modern afforestation efforts go against this long-standing ecological pattern.\nImagine walking ... [6253 chars]",
            "url": "https://scitechdaily.com/europe-was-never-a-giant-dark-forest-new-20-million-year-study-reveals/",
            "image": "https://scitechdaily.com/images/Artist-Reconstruction-of-Miocene-Woodland-Landscape.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T00:42:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "68731ff9e39259c4191d23f5faee25eb",
                "name": "SciTechDaily",
                "url": "https://scitechdaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2e5834d17656c09f0cd19719a56c42fb",
            "title": "The ISS travels at 17,500 miles per hour, which means astronauts inside it are aging measurably slower than people on the ground, and by the time Scott Kelly returned from his year in orbit he was 5 m",
            "description": "At 17,500 mph, the ISS produces real relativistic time dilation. After 340 days in orbit, Scott Kelly returned roughly 5 milliseconds younger than his identical twin brother Mark, a tiny but measurable confirmation of Einstein's special relativity in human flesh.",
            "content": "Scott Kelly came home from 340 days on the International Space Station in March 2016 fractionally younger than the brother he had left behind. Not metaphorically. Measurably. By the calculation NASA ran on his return, the commander was roughly 5 mill... [9578 chars]",
            "url": "https://spacedaily.com/sd-the-iss-travels-at-17-500-miles-per-hour-which-means-astronauts-inside-it-are-aging-measurably-slower-than-people-on-the-ground-and-by-the-time-scott-kelly-returned-from-his-year-in-orbit-he-was-5/",
            "image": "https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/the-iss-travels-at-17-500-miles-per-hour.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T00:38:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e78ce7d66fa4cc7a845a221fd1505b06",
                "name": "Space Daily",
                "url": "https://spacedaily.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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