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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": 132148,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f7eae89c304544c18f3279413fe4affe",
            "title": "Fireball lights up the North Country sky",
            "description": "REGIONAL — Residents across the eastern Iron Range looked up Saturday night to see an unusual green streak blazing across the sky, prompting dozens to wonder if they’d witnessed a meteor …",
            "content": "REGIONAL — Residents across the eastern Iron Range looked up Saturday night to see an unusual green streak blazing across the sky, prompting dozens to wonder if they’d witnessed a meteor or something more mysterious.\nThe American Meteor Society recei... [2153 chars]",
            "url": "http://www.timberjay.com/stories/fireball-lights-up-the-north-country-sky,23785",
            "image": "https://beta.creativecirclecdn.com/timberjay/original/20251211-103256-82c-12.12%20fireball.tif.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-11T14:38:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a43591d2b88cbaf79a3b293a0e0b7134",
                "name": "The Timberjay",
                "url": "http://www.timberjay.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "79bb9e59dda479fad309ae2178118b06",
            "title": "\"Allô Houston, MAVEN ne répond plus\" : la NASA perd brusquement une sonde martienne capitale pour l'exploration de la Planète Rouge",
            "description": "La NASA a perdu le contact avec MAVEN, une sonde clé en orbite martienne, compromettant science et communications interplanétaires.",
            "content": "Depuis 2014, la sonde MAVEN scrute l’atmosphère martienne pour le compte de la NASA, avec l’appui scientifique du Laboratoire de physique atmosphérique et spatiale de l’université du Colorado à Boulder. Ce satellite, essentiel à la compréhension des ... [8383 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.science-et-vie.com/ciel-et-espace/mars/allo-houston-maven-ne-repond-plus-la-nasa-perd-brusquement-une-sonde-martienne-capitale-dans-lexploration-de-la-planete-rouge-221001.html",
            "image": "https://www.science-et-vie.com/wp-content/uploads/scienceetvie/2025/12/orbiteur-sonde-maven-signal-radio-perdu-nasa-couv.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-11T14:30:52Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "671ae71959c2f0b9f32fb91bd0c7c76a",
                "name": "Science et vie",
                "url": "https://www.science-et-vie.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "545dafbbd78d2afa207bcd79455273f2",
            "title": "Will \"Salt-Tolerant Plants\" Soon Be Grown in the Lab? New Research Reveals How This Evolutionary Hack Could Happen",
            "description": "A new study offers a potential roadmap for protecting crops as sea levels rise and coastal soils become more saline.",
            "content": "A new international study has pinpointed a surprisingly simple cellular adaptation that helps plants survive in saltwater, offering a potential roadmap for protecting crops as sea levels rise and coastal soils become more saline.\nPublished this week ... [3363 chars]",
            "url": "https://thedebrief.org/will-salt-tolerant-plants-soon-be-grown-in-the-lab-new-research-reveals-how-this-evolutionary-hack-could-happen/",
            "image": "https://thedebrief.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/mangrove.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-11T14:21:48Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "75289a5037a475f8fd5de0a2fcc3ad3c",
                "name": "The Debrief",
                "url": "https://thedebrief.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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