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Nigeria Science News API

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

Get API key for the Nigeria 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 Nigeria.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ng&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 748,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "582ef8ec1bab746884ba1b29ec4968d7",
            "title": "New Evidence That An Ancient Martian Ocean Covered Half The Planet",
            "description": "Mars Was Half Covered by an Ocean\nsusannakohler33808\nMon, 01/12/2026 - 12:00\nMars Was Half Covered by an Ocean\nhttps://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/index_eng.html",
            "content": "Bit by bit, scientists are piecing together Mars' climate history. Thanks to orbiters armed with powerful cameras and rovers carrying suites of scientific instruments, the red planet's history is becoming clearer year-by-year. In the past decade or s... [8155 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-evidence-that-an-ancient-martian-ocean-covered-half-the-planet",
            "image": "https://www.universetoday.com/article_images/Mars_SFDs_20260113_152558.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T19:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e209c18934dfc136fe2651208d3d9a69",
                "name": "Universe Today",
                "url": "https://www.universetoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "36417b517a9cdcc09fa6b7c165e8950e",
            "title": "Scientists Watched Viruses Attack Bacteria in Space. Things Got Weird",
            "description": "\"Microbes continue to evolve under microgravity, and they do so in ways that are not always predictable.\"",
            "content": "The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses that prey on bacteria—can behave quite peculiarly in... [4283 chars]",
            "url": "https://gizmodo.com/scientists-watched-viruses-attack-bacteria-in-space-things-got-weird-2000709619",
            "image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/01/ISS-International-Space-Station-NASA-1200x675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T19:00:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
                "name": "Gizmodo",
                "url": "https://gizmodo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6a4640ba6d1b983d17a6e39de8bf0a8b",
            "title": "AI-driven virtual screening uncovers two potent CDK9 inhibitors with anticancer effects in lab tests",
            "description": "A new and important discovery comes from the field of oncological research thanks to the joint work of researchers from the Sbarro Institute in Philadelphia, the National Cancer Institute—Pascale Foundation, and the University of Pisa.",
            "content": "A new and important discovery comes from the field of oncological research thanks to the joint work of researchers from the Sbarro Institute in Philadelphia, the National Cancer Institute—Pascale Foundation, and the University of Pisa.\nThe study has ... [3591 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-ai-driven-virtual-screening-uncovers.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/artificial-intelligenc-2.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T17:46:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
                "name": "Medical Xpress",
                "url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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