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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": 131428,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b08faed8295e04ff4efacc6c544274cf",
            "title": "La plongée en eau glacée, oui, mais…",
            "description": "CARTE BLANCHE. Dans sa Carte blanche au « Monde », la chercheuse en psychologie Sylvie Chokron défend les bienfaits des immersions en eau froide. A condition de les pratiquer de façon progressive et régulière.",
            "content": "Peut-être n’avez-vous pas encore tenté cette nouvelle expérience qui séduit de plus en plus : prendre un bain en plein hiver dans une eau ne dépassant pas les 15 °C ! Pourtant, comme chaque année, ce 1er janvier, des hordes de nageurs ont plongé, cou... [2189 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2026/01/07/la-plongee-en-eau-glacee-oui-mais_6660810_1650684.html",
            "image": "https://img.lemde.fr/2023/03/30/0/0/4253/2835/1440/960/60/0/4903a4d_1680167844315-le-monde-carte-blanche-def-01.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-07T04:00:07Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "f8bceab28da05bf9ed8678be4690bf64",
                "name": "Le Monde.fr",
                "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "815b1eb193bdf7bb9573d65b4f9d6609",
            "title": "Why the discovery of hot gas between galaxies is exciting Canadian researchers",
            "description": "A team of international researchers, led by a University of British Columbia astrophysicist, has discovered a young galaxy cluster that was producing hot gas at a rate five times hotter than previously theoretically thought possible.",
            "content": "A team of international researchers, led by a University of British Columbia astrophysicist, has discovered a young galaxy cluster that was producing hot gas at a rate five times hotter than previously theoretically thought possible.\nIt's a discovery... [2744 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hot-gas-young-galaxy-clusters-9.7035825",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/98462471-2fdb-49c8-b9f4-bc68e5c2f908,1767747768357/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C738%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-07T02:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "27d2e28ad8f1fd0ef36f49011a115955",
            "title": "The poison frog that fooled scientists for decades",
            "description": "Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum specimen. The frog tied to the official species name turned out to be brown, not the colorful animal shown in the original photo. After tracing old records and images, scientists corrected the error and reclassified the frog as part of an already-known species. The case underscores how vital museum collections are—and how even small mistakes can ripple through science for years.",
            "content": "The research team published its findings in the journal Zootaxa.\nWhy Holotypes Matter in Species Science\n\"When you describe a species, you assign one specimen that bears the name of that species,\" said lead author Ana Motta, collection manager of her... [5009 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260106001914.htm",
            "image": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/misidentified-poison-frog.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-07T02:01:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "81a05fd2712964dbdb32b1c6a27646fd",
                "name": "ScienceDaily",
                "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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