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New Zealand Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from New Zealand with our JSON API.

Get API key for the New Zealand 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 New Zealand.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=nz&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 11,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7da74c9d63a8b79f6f4849e639129f98",
            "title": "How a new light-based cancer treatment could destroy tumours without harming healthy cells - using LEDs",
            "description": "A low-cost LED-powered therapy that uses nanoscopic tin oxide flakes to kill cancer cells could make cancer treatment safer, more precise and more accessible.",
            "content": "Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage healthy cells alongside cance... [6280 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-light-based-cancer-treatment-could-destroy-tumours-without-harming-healthy-cells-using-leds-267556",
            "image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/697070/original/file-20251019-56-h5wset.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C626%2C7500%2C3750&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-22T17:12:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
                "name": "The Conversation",
                "url": "https://theconversation.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2311b914bdafc42246d33053d089d474",
            "title": "University of Bonn Physicists Study Collective Photon Behavior in Confined Quantum States",
            "description": "Physicists at the University of Bonn have uncovered new […]",
            "content": "Physicists at the University of Bonn have uncovered new details about the collective behavior of photons, the fundamental particles of light. Their findings, published in *Physical Review Letters*, explore how photons interact when confined and coole... [741 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.geneonline.com/university-of-bonn-physicists-study-collective-photon-behavior-in-confined-quantum-states/",
            "image": "https://www.geneonline.com/wp-content/uploads/LOGO-橫.svg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-22T17:09:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e5376462a7128acdb762718aa2daf90e",
                "name": "geneonline.com",
                "url": "https://www.geneonline.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5002030e69bcfbefe78a74b4cc91aba7",
            "title": "World's biggest X-ray laser discovers never-before-seen type of ice that's solid at room temperature",
            "description": "Researchers have unveiled ice XXI, a new form of ice that's solid at room temperatures when subjected to immense pressure.",
            "content": "Scientists have squeezed water between two diamonds to create an entirely new form of ice that's solid at room temperature.\nThe ice, named ice XXI, forms when water is subjected to extreme pressure to become metastable — a precarious state that is ma... [2072 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/worlds-biggest-x-ray-laser-discovers-never-before-seen-type-of-ice-thats-solid-at-room-temperature",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZnXrR2GDncPvCacpxGbrem-2560-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-22T16:47:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "95993cee63c947c63f6bfe9192834ef8",
                "name": "Live Science",
                "url": "https://www.livescience.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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