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": 146890,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9710db60c6e14de5604593ac2002a156",
            "title": "A rare particle decay at the LHC is behaving strangely, and physicists are starting to question whether their most trusted theory holds",
            "description": "Rare LHC anomaly pushes scientists to question its 50-year-old Standard Model",
            "content": "A rare decay exposes cracks in physics that refuse easy explanation\nThe Standard Model shows strain under one of its toughest tests\nFour-sigma anomaly hints something subtle may be missing in physics\nScientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have... [4474 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.techradar.com/pro/physicists-just-found-a-bizarre-charming-penguin-glitch-at-the-lhc-that-could-prove-everything-weve-ever-known-about-physics-and-reality-itself-is-dead-wrong",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CNPBhrsA86Q7U8UdpT5qp9-2560-80.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T20:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f884e22d91ed60e3f04d31d7bf217839",
                "name": "TechRadar",
                "url": "https://www.techradar.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b92d9685c5842a329db44b322551a623",
            "title": "Lyrid meteor shower peaks soon in sky above Washington. Here’s when to watch",
            "description": "Here’s how to see “bright and fast” shooting stars and fireballs.",
            "content": "One of the oldest known meteor showers will soon be visible in the night sky.\nThe Lyrid meteor shower falls in April every year.\nHere’s how you can see it in Washington state:\nWhat is the Lyrid meteor shower?\nFirst observed in China in 687 BC, the Ly... [2260 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lyrid-meteor-shower-peaks-soon-202751407.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/os/en/tacoma_news_tribune_mcclatchy_articles_153/d1c923c826acf805c04b558bdaf056a8",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T20:27:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "45812d01471df4aa8fe351ac4887d894",
            "title": "The Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight! Here’s how to catch a glimpse",
            "description": "The Lyrid meteor shower, which happens every April, peaks tonight in the night sky. Here’s how to catch a glimpse in Canada.",
            "content": "Meteors are debris burning up in the atmosphere\nIt’s that time of year again, but are you willing to stay up late to catch a glimpse of one of the oldest meteor showers known?\nTonight, the Lyrid meteor shower — which happens each year around this tim... [1655 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/the-lyrid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight-heres-how-to-catch-a-glimpse",
            "image": "https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/images/LYRIDMETEORAPR26THUMB.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T20:19:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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