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Nigeria Science News API

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

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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 Nigeria.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ng&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 1202,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "56d79b0cfe4561a382219eecab6e093c",
            "title": "AI finally tests a century old theory about how cancer begins",
            "description": "Cancer often begins when the genetic instructions that guide our cells become scrambled, allowing cells to grow uncontrollably. Now, scientists at EMBL have developed an AI-powered system called MAGIC that can automatically spot and tag cells showing early signs of chromosomal trouble—tiny DNA-filled structures known as micronuclei that are linked to future cancer development.",
            "content": "Researchers in the Korbel Group at EMBL Heidelberg have now developed a powerful AI based tool that helps scientists investigate how these chromosomal abnormalities arise. By revealing the conditions that allow these errors to form, the technology ma... [5391 chars]",
            "url": "http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260309225152.htm",
            "image": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/machine-learning-assisted-genomics-and-imaging-convergence-magic.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T23:14:16Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8400452cd3ae520c3deec87e0653d197",
                "name": "ScienceDaily",
                "url": "http://www.sciencedaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "300211853d7f6b72823fd4eb7edfdd06",
            "title": "NASA satellite to fall back to Earth, with a small risk of debris",
            "description": "A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday",
            "content": "A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday.\nThe roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen Probe A, is projected to plunge through the atmosphere... [3613 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-satellite-reenter-earth-debris-rcna262737",
            "image": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2026-03/260310-van-allen-probe-gk-40c2b9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T20:40:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3bab6463853c054dc51d2427c1a5b69e",
                "name": "NBC News",
                "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8c1efc9f230a8e14d30994d6a6a3b4ab",
            "title": "Newborn chicks match sounds and shapes just like humans",
            "description": "Newborn chicks match “kiki” with spiky shapes and “bouba” with round ones, revealing the curious bouba-kiki effect in animals.",
            "content": "Scientists have shown that newborn chicks match the sounds “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and rounded shapes, revealing that this sound–shape pattern, long documented in humans, also appears in a nonhuman species for the first time.\nThe finding moves ... [5104 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/newborn-chicks-match-sounds-and-shapes-just-like-humans/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/03/10100139/chicks-bouba-kiki-sound-shape-experiment.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T20:13:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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