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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": 126784,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0f90f15a22fb3a62b4dcee5c4511e004",
            "title": "Scientists engineer microbe that mass-produces camouflage pigment",
            "description": "Scientists create a microbe that makes cephalopod pigment at record levels, opening doors to sustainable materials.",
            "content": "A remarkable advancement in microbial engineering has put a previously obscure natural pigment in the spotlight. If you've kept up with research on camouflage, optical material, or bioinspired chemistry, you have no doubt been intrigued for many year... [7950 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-engineer-microbe-that-mass-produces-camouflage-pigment/",
            "image": "https://www.thebrighterside.news/uploads/2025/11/shutterstock_691808251-scaled.jpg?auto=webp&width=2000&height=1500",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-17T19:07:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "112bf679e5854b6527eea31fa42dbada",
                "name": "The Brighter Side of News",
                "url": "https://www.thebrighterside.news"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c264e4d6eea2d42bcb82ecac1588f59b",
            "title": "Prebiotically Plausible Peptides Can Self",
            "description": "Welcome to Astrobiology.com",
            "content": "Modern proteins are remarkable polymers built from a 20-amino-acid alphabet, shaped by billions of years of evolution. Yet in Earth’s prebiotic era, several amino acids – particularly the canonical basic residues lysine, arginine, and histidine – wer... [2383 chars]",
            "url": "https://astrobiology.com/2025/11/prebiotically-plausible-peptides-can-self-assemble-into-b-rich-nanostructures.html",
            "image": "https://astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Prebiotically-Plausible-Peptides.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-17T18:56:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1ff5b422408f5ec9bc27a0260c24caee",
                "name": "astrobiology.com",
                "url": "https://astrobiology.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2dec1c82f61b92ede9a0faffdc03bea5",
            "title": "Archaeological breakthrough contradicts the timeline of human civilization",
            "description": "To inhabit the islands, it is assumed that technological advancements in seafaring, beyond what was considered possible during the Paleolithic era, or in the Old Stone Age, were necessary.",
            "content": "Archaeologists and historians have long been stumped by an unsolved mystery concerning the well-inhabited islands of Southeast Asia, which were populated long ago.\nTo inhabit the islands, it is assumed that technological advancements in seafaring, be... [3723 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.the-express.com/news/science/190829/archaeology-breakthrough-seafaring-stone-age-paleolithic",
            "image": "https://cdn-images.the-express.com/img/dynamic/15/1200x630/469456.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-17T18:08:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "382af8f1215e64a4b32d792a698b7acb",
                "name": "Daily Express US",
                "url": "https://www.the-express.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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