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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": 13944,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "daa1135cec1b14e3e6c1a927c5b70498",
            "title": "Student makes cosmic dust in a lab, shining a light on the origin of life",
            "description": "A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.",
            "content": "Recreating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did.\nLosurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University of Sydney, used simple gases and electricity to re... [6194 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/science/cosmic-dust-discovery-life-beginnings",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/phd-candidate-linda-losurdo-in-her-university-of-sydney-lab-landscape-2-photo-fiona-wolf-university-of-sydney.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T17:30:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "cnn.com",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d2d19a195be2c7339fc5faa092cb70bf",
            "title": "One of the Largest Stars Ever Seen Just Pulled Off a Cosmic Plot Twist",
            "description": "Astronomers stunned by this monster star, expected to explode, which suddenly comes back to life after baffling new data reveals it’s not dying after all.",
            "content": "New observations reveal that WOH G64, once assumed to be nearing a supernova, is still a red supergiant and may have been misdiagnosed all along. This enormous star, about 1,500 times the width of the Sun and up to 282,000 times brighter, is one of t... [2164 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/monster-star-comes-back-to-life/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/It-Was-Supposed-to-Die-One-of-the-Largest-Stars-Ever-Seen-Just-Pulled-Off-a-Cosmic-Plot-Twist-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T13:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a418ec486b6fd374b6e49617063035bc",
            "title": "The largest life-form on land 400 million years ago was one that scientists can’t explain",
            "description": "Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ancient life form is not a plant, animal or fungi and instead may be a completely unknown form of multicellular life.",
            "content": "Prototaxites fossils from Rhynie chert near Aberdeen, Scotland, show unique chemical and structural features distinct from fungi, suggesting a novel form of multicellular life.\nA 400 million years-old organism, Prototaxites, from three fossils in the... [2433 chars]",
            "url": "https://ground.news/article/the-largest-life-form-on-land-400-million-years-ago-was-one-that-scientists-cant-explain",
            "image": "data:image/svg+xml,path { fill: %23262626 } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { path { fill: %23EEEFE9 } }",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T06:01:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c6d1c1ae3d541952e0100a17a8475e05",
                "name": "Ground News",
                "url": "https://ground.news"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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