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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": 135578,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1f03b3e950b9fb81c0ebf2bb1003603e",
            "title": "Les premières villes n’étaient peut-être pas en Mésopotamie… mais ici",
            "description": "Dans l’est de l’Europe, en Ukraine, un site découvert il y a plus de cinquante ans attire l’attention des chercheurs. Une équipe d’archéologues pense ainsi avoir trouvé l’une des plus vieilles cité...",
            "content": "L'Histoire s'inscrit dans l'incertitude, les certitudes évoluant au fil des découvertes. De récentes recherches archéologiques menées sur un site ukrainien laissent penser que les premières cités imaginées grâce à un schéma urbain précis seraient app... [2953 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/archeologie-premieres-villes-netaient-peut-etre-pas-mesopotamie-mais-ici-w2t8-129989/",
            "image": "https://cdn8.futura-sciences.com/a1280/Neolithic-structure-openart.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T08:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "48d625e228a61460621df39f701babfe",
                "name": "Futura, Le média qui explore le monde",
                "url": "https://www.futura-sciences.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3f57c3fbf385877434326931d9b34b0a",
            "title": "Hubble peers through thick dust to capture hidden young stars",
            "description": "Recently released images from NASA’s Hubble showed baby stars and their properties. By studying the properties of the stars, astronomers can try to determine the evolutionary stage of the star. All of these are important in understanding how these massive stars form.",
            "content": "NASA’s Hubble took images of protostars covered in thick dust. These are stars in their formative years. They form in thick dust, making it difficult to see them in visible light. But Hubble is able to detect their near-infrared emissions through hol... [1675 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hubble-peers-through-thick-dust-to-capture-hidden-young-stars.1211162.0.html",
            "image": "https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc5/An-image-region-G033.910.11-showing-a-young-star.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T01:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6f43ddc905277d3cab59591df0bcaa6d",
                "name": "Notebookcheck",
                "url": "https://www.notebookcheck.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d6ca8ebf48b38455a3644402ede76fa8",
            "title": "Jan 24: 'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more...",
            "description": "Tracking space debris using seismometers, using nitrogen to boost trees, how Mars shapes our climate, extracting ice age mammoth RNA and using lichens to find dino bones.",
            "content": "On this week's episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald:\nHow earthquake sensors could track incoming space junk for clean up\nSpace junk falling back to Earth can be dangerous, and often contains flammable or even radioactive materials. Researcher... [3468 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jan-24-dogs-learn-9.7058251",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/028ba54d-ba09-43c7-89c3-676ea0177f85,1769194752121/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C278%2C5338%2C3002%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-23T23:26:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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