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South Africa Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from South Africa 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 South Africa.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=za&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 33,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f222dc7ed16c796476cb97934f0a82ae",
            "title": "Researchers use NVST high-resolution data to study chromospheric fibrils around quiescent filament",
            "description": "Using high-resolution data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), a research team led by Prof. Yan Xiaoli from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has conducted an in-depth study on the physical properties and oscillations of chromospheric fibrils surrounding a quiescent filament.",
            "content": "Using high-resolution data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), a research team led by Prof. Yan Xiaoli from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has conducted an in-depth study on the physical properties... [2029 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nvst-high-resolution-chromospheric-fibrils.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2025/researchers-use-nvst-h.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-22T21:16:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ad9fc4c0f54fe9b1045e4fbd8d045d03",
            "title": "The JWST Spots A Doomed Star Entombed In Thick Dust",
            "description": "Astronomers working with the JWST, along with help from the Hubble, have found a red supergiant star that eventually exploded as a supernova. The discovery helps solve the 'red supergiant problem' that confounds efforts to understand how these stars serve as progenitors that eventually explode as Type II supernova.",
            "content": "Not all stars get to live long fruitful lives, surrounded by their orbiting, planetary offspring. A substantial fraction of stars never get to become white dwarfs like our Sun will, and spend a long retirement radiating their remnant energy. Those st... [9059 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-spots-a-doomed-star-entombed-in-thick-dust",
            "image": "https://www.universetoday.com/article_images/kilpatrick-STScI-01K5YFXR12QY7N3TV2E2HWCPFE-1.tif_20251022_154847.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-22T19:33:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e209c18934dfc136fe2651208d3d9a69",
                "name": "Universe Today",
                "url": "https://www.universetoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5fd2471ff95a6885384d4cfcd64244cb",
            "title": "Diver Films World’s Largest Jellyfish Species at Night, and the Video Is Hypnotizing",
            "description": "The largest known lion's mane jellyfish was 120 feet (36.5 meters) long.",
            "content": "An underwater videographer has just published mesmerizing footage of the world’s largest, longest, and heaviest known jellyfish species—a lion’s mane jelly.\n“Several minutes into the dive, I noticed a long, thin tentacle trailing overhead, stretching... [1975 chars]",
            "url": "https://gizmodo.com/diver-films-worlds-largest-jellyfish-species-at-night-and-the-video-is-hypnotizing-2000675596",
            "image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/10/lions-mane-jelly-1200x675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-22T19:15:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
                "name": "Gizmodo",
                "url": "https://gizmodo.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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