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": 143344,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b3c7a684299d4a7b93cb22016512ae2b",
            "title": "Queen’s student wins international Nature photo competition",
            "description": "Allen Tian, Queen’s student, recognized in world’s leading science journal.",
            "content": "Article content\nWhile scrolling Instagram, Haolun (Allen) Tian, Queen’s PhD student, stumbled across a post stating Nature’s annual photo competition was accepting submissions. A month later, Tian learned his image had been selected as one of the top... [5915 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thewhig.com/news/queens-student-wins-international-nature-photo-competition",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nexus/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/0613-ki-nature-photo-02.ki_.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T18:41:58Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "643b2546b330db5d3311b78f5feef35f",
                "name": "The Kingston Whig Standard",
                "url": "https://www.thewhig.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "381b3aee639a7a50d14eabc380962aca",
            "title": "Study maps quadrillion-mile fungus web lurking in topsoil",
            "description": "These microscopic organisms carry water and nutrients to 70 per cent of plant species and help keep a vast amount of carbon out of the atmosphere.",
            "content": "Article content\nScientists have mapped a dense network of thread-like fungi that criss crosses across an array of biomes while hiding just beneath the Earth’s surface.\nTHIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS\nEnjoy the latest local, national and inte... [4665 chars]",
            "url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/science/study-maps-quadrillion-mile-fungus-web-lurking-in-the-topsoil",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/50c61627437db55970383ac4cf95c7c833eb885e_300749854.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T18:34:59Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b21848176ea49868330160a249ef8b6e",
                "name": "National Post",
                "url": "https://nationalpost.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f21c7ff3fc923f2daf8db1cffc4ea61b",
            "title": "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 close encounter: a new image",
            "description": "An image of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 ,taken on 8 June 2026 by G. Masi while it was safely approaching us.",
            "content": "We continue following up the potentially hazardous asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 on its way to its spectacular flyby, next June 27. Please find here our new image.\nThe image shown above comes from a six, 120-second exposures, remotely taken with the “El... [766 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2026/06/12/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-152637-1997-nc1-close-encounter-a-new-image-8-june-2026/",
            "image": "https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1997NC1_8june2026_masi_pw17.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T17:52:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "14466034b1fd13044e03939c97bd683b",
                "name": "The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0",
                "url": "https://www.virtualtelescope.eu"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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