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United Kingdom Science News API

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

Get API key for the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 15228,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4fd402c441f53a40a40d528aa1aaa63c",
            "title": "Scientists Say We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for Human Origins After They Found This Fossil in This Forgotten Region of Egypt",
            "description": "What if the origins of modern apes have been hiding in plain sight, revealed by a fossil found far from where scientists were looking?",
            "content": "A fossil found in northern Egypt is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about our origins. Named Masripithecus moghraensis, this ape lived around 17 to 18 million years ago and may be very close to the ancestor of all modern apes.\nFor a long... [2469 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/wrong-place-human-origins-egypt-fossil/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Scientists-Say-Weve-Been-Looking-in-the-Wrong-Place-for-Human-Origins-After-They-Found-This-Fossil-in-This-Forgotten-Region-of-Egypt-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-10T14:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "536b66dfdd57d801ab2c9609b35c1bf6",
            "title": "Scientists Spot Unusual Solar Flare Emissions That Defy Current Solar Models",
            "description": "A new solar flare discovery challenges current models and could redefine the way scientists understand the Sun’s behavior.",
            "content": "Astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) have captured a solar flare that defies all expectations, shaking the foundations of solar physics. This new discovery, reported in two studies, New Solar Flare Observations Challenge Lea... [5538 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/scientists-unusual-solar-flare-emissions/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Scientists-Spot-Unusual-Solar-Flare-Emissions-That-Defy-Current-Solar-Models-scaled.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-10T12:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fb492d8237b576bf6c487a88c19c8722",
            "title": "New mutant tarantula discovered and it's got massive balls",
            "description": "The spiders - who have been given the genus Satyrex - live in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.",
            "content": "A new type of tarantula has been discovered and classified by scientists due to their exceptionally large male genitalia.\nThe spiders – who have been given the genus Satyrex – live in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.\nResearchers have ide... [2851 chars]",
            "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/10/scientists-identify-new-tarantula-giant-genitalia-males-developed-so-didnt-become-dinner-27896620/",
            "image": "https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/coverimages55603074-9b86_1775808453.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&h=630&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-10T07:07:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b40633e34a62c20b9ec4adf5e8bee789",
                "name": "Metro.co.uk",
                "url": "https://metro.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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