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": 143550,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8b0f68aaad54baf218eefe579147c2d9",
            "title": "June 13: Fossilized squirrel poop full of ancient animals, and more…",
            "description": "Ice-making fungus with 'phenomenal' ice-making capabilities may trigger rain or snow, how scientists are leveraging the mutations we accumulate over our lifetime for our health, animals regrow body parts and maybe we can too, and Isaac Asimov from the archives",
            "content": "On this week's episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald:\nAncient squirrel poop offers a glimpse of Ice Age ecosystems\nGold miners working in the Yukon regularly find ancient ground squirrel burrows throughout the permafrost, many containing fossi... [2436 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/squirrel-poop-ice-age-mystery-9.7233499",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/98eb0a81-7287-4629-82c1-40af9c3da3f2,1781286117578/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C218%2C4288%2C2412%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T22:09:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "12e887f184d2218f6548ff394e9c6954",
            "title": "Astronomers trace a 20-year radio mystery to clashing fields between two stars",
            "description": "Astronomers say they may be close to explaining a space mystery that has lingered for about 20 years: odd radio signals that continue much longer than the brief bursts.",
            "content": "Astronomers say they may be close to explaining a space mystery that has lingered for about 20 years: odd radio signals that continue much longer than the brief bursts usually seen in the cosmos.\nThe suspected source is a tightly bound pair of stars,... [2548 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/astronomers-discover-space-mystery-source/",
            "image": "https://www.thecooldown.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/dwarfs.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T19:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e1ead52d96666e44f50f0649131c4e28",
                "name": "The Cool Down",
                "url": "https://www.thecooldown.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e6b747368b4e41eeb9d77be5f15ca3b4",
            "title": "Obtenir les bénéfices du sommeil sans dormir: la piste étonnante qui intrigue les chercheurs",
            "description": "Certaines souris semblent récupérer les effets d’une bonne nuit de sommeil grâce à la stimulation de leur activité cérébrale pendant qu’elles sont…",
            "content": "Et s'il était possible de profiter des bienfaits du sommeil sans même s'endormir? C'est l'objet d'une nouvelle étude, qui a été détaillée dans The New Scientist. La stimulation d'une partie de notre cerveau pourrait nous procurer le même repos, tout ... [3921 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.slate.fr/sciences/benefices-sommeil-sans-dormir-experience-scientifique-repos-memoire",
            "image": "https://cdn.slate.fr/uploads/store/story_272971/original_272971.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T18:55:04Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "017f9749b179c806b725a4049a9c676d",
                "name": "Slate.fr",
                "url": "https://www.slate.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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