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": 16710,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "618d978777a423303ed2fe65a18f4c55",
            "title": "SpaceX soars with its first launch as a public company, marking a new era",
            "description": "SpaceX executed its first Falcon 9 launch since going public on June 15, a routine yet symbolically powerful Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.",
            "content": "SpaceX executed its first Falcon 9 launch since going public on June 15, a routine yet symbolically powerful Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.\nLiftoff of the Falcon 9 booster B1093, on its 14th flight, occurred at appro... [12204 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-soars-first-launch-public-company-new-era/",
            "image": "https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/spacex-first-launch-post-ipo-1000x600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-15T19:42:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "44beafd9936e62d0f154a295b7c4b045",
                "name": "Teslarati",
                "url": "https://www.teslarati.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c1f2a2d17ca9d87c7b86346fbd4bf521",
            "title": "In the field - and sometimes in the lab - the simplest tool is best",
            "description": "Technology has led to unprecedented innovation, but common household items can help make research more reproducible — and accessible.",
            "content": "For David Thomas, a walk to the kitchen for coffee is a trip down memory lane. Standing amid the spoons, pans and pantry goods of his home, Thomas — an Arctic researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland — is reminded of days spent on the ice,... [5421 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01885-y?error=cookies_not_supported&code=286d79c4-4c64-4f7b-9abf-3d6e02a95f41",
            "image": "https://media.nature.com/lw1200/magazine-assets/d41586-026-01885-y/d41586-026-01885-y_52538986.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-15T12:45:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7abf0df285fbe93cdccffcc7c4088737",
                "name": "Nature",
                "url": "https://www.nature.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f53016c22d34409b3da1992a60fc2ac9",
            "title": "The hidden physics complicating interstellar lightsails",
            "description": "If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be a solar sail. These giant reflective surfaces form the basis of many interstellar mission concepts. Combined with giant lasers pushing them, they can be accelerated to speeds unreachable by any other current technologies.",
            "content": "If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be a solar sail. These giant reflective surfaces for... [2962 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hidden-physics-complicating-interstellar-lightsails.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2026/the-hidden-physics-com.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-14T18:00:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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