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": 139448,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a2349abe1761143717d9fcc30abedf3c",
            "title": "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 close encounter: a new image",
            "description": "A image of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 taken on 7 June 2026 by Gianluca Masi,, Virtual Telescope Project.",
            "content": "We captured a new image of the potentially hazardous asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 on its way to its spectacular flyby, next June 27. We are pleased to show it here.\nThe image shown above comes from a single 120-second exposure, remotely taken with the ... [736 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2026/06/07/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-152637-1997-nc1-close-encounter-a-new-image-7-june-2026/",
            "image": "https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1997NC1_7june2026_masi_pw17.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T20:33:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "14466034b1fd13044e03939c97bd683b",
                "name": "The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0",
                "url": "https://www.virtualtelescope.eu"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "750e7ec20faa04c985d9abde9eaca19b",
            "title": "Dynamic terahertz wavefront control using stretchable single-walled carbon nanotube-based metasurfaces",
            "description": "The terahertz (THz) frequency regime, sitting between microwaves and infrared light, has long promised revolutionary advances in wireless communication, security imaging and nondestructive sensing. A key roadblock, however, has been the lack of compact, dynamically tunable components capable of manipulating THz beams on demand.",
            "content": "The terahertz (THz) frequency regime, sitting between microwaves and infrared light, has long promised revolutionary advances in wireless communication, security imaging and nondestructive sensing. A key roadblock, however, has been the lack of compa... [2953 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-06-dynamic-terahertz-wavefront-stretchable-walled.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2026/dynamic-terahertz-wave.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T19:40:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7a5dcad910f3e47704b36297d1700963",
            "title": "These sea cucumbers seem to have 'zombie' flesh that doesn't die when lopped off",
            "description": "ST. JOHN’S — A scientist in St. John’s, N.L., has found that bits of flesh amputated from scarlet sea cucumbers can heal themselves and carry on in a state somewhere between life and death. Sara Jobson is a doctoral student in the ocean sciences department at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, and she is […]",
            "content": "ST. JOHN’S — A scientist in St. John’s, N.L., has found that bits of flesh amputated from scarlet sea cucumbers can heal themselves and carry on in a state somewhere between life and death.\nSara Jobson is a doctoral student in the ocean sciences depa... [1071 chars]",
            "url": "https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/06/07/these-sea-cucumbers-seem-to-have-zombie-flesh-that-doesnt-die-when-lopped-off/",
            "image": "https://halifax.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/5/2026/06/810fad9c62fce0871cedd1cd75679b1e3730372e7688a88e7e2a3ea4f9074bce.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T18:17:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b5df96a63eeb53e366132e9394b2a9e1",
                "name": "CityNews Halifax",
                "url": "https://halifax.citynews.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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