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South Africa Science News API
Get the live top science headlines from South Africa with our JSON API.
Get API key for the South Africa Science News APIAPI 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": 867,
"articles": [
{
"id": "8f2031abd7d8d67df3db4541fdeaec6d",
"title": "I Survived a Type Ia, and All I Got Was This Kick Velocity",
"description": "Some type Ia supernovae involve a companion star that somehow survives the energetic explosion. What can we learn from these companions?",
"content": "Title: Supernova Ia Remnants with M-dwarf Surviving Companions\nAuthors: Kuo-Chuan Pan (潘國全), Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, and Jonay I. González Hernández\nFirst Author’s Institution: Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan\nStatus: Publish... [5739 chars]",
"url": "https://astrobites.org/2026/01/13/snr-ia-mdwarf-companion/",
"image": "https://astrobites.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/featured-image.png",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-13T18:56:01Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "12b02e8e49048e16403aacd287b27d5c",
"name": "Astrobites",
"url": "https://astrobites.org"
}
},
{
"id": "b4c101196e58a895d22178ed19873795",
"title": "Research institutions tout scholarship that crosses disciplines but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out",
"description": "The most exciting landmark scientific achievements don't happen without researchers sharing and collaborating with others outside their field. When people first landed on the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong's first footsteps marked the realization of a century-long vision that integrated a variety of scientific fields. Landing on the moon required expertise in electrical, mechanical, chemical and computer engineering, as well as astronomy and physics.",
"content": "The most exciting landmark scientific achievements don't happen without researchers sharing and collaborating with others outside their field. When people first landed on the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong's first footsteps marked the realization of a ... [6725 chars]",
"url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-01-tout-scholarship-disciplines-academia-interdisciplinary.html",
"image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2019/4-research.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-13T18:28:16Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
"name": "Phys.org",
"url": "https://phys.org"
}
},
{
"id": "5fb9052826c19aa0049827643064150c",
"title": "AI Learns From The Tree Of Life To Support Rare Disease Diagnosis",
"description": "Welcome to Astrobiology.com",
"content": "Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and understand whatever metabolic and genomic systems are in operation is impor... [7330 chars]",
"url": "https://astrobiology.com/2026/01/ai-learns-from-the-tree-of-life-to-support-rare-disease-diagnosis.html",
"image": "https://astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AI-learns-from-the-tree-of-life.png",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-13T17:47:10Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "1ff5b422408f5ec9bc27a0260c24caee",
"name": "astrobiology.com",
"url": "https://astrobiology.com"
}
}
]
}