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United States Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from United States 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 United States.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=us&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 34488,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "afb46731af0759e7f87838bb6ecb1f39",
            "title": "What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals",
            "description": "Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.",
            "content": "One of the biggest discoveries about human evolution in recent decades is that, tens of thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. As a result, most people alive today carry a bit of Neanderthal DNA in their genome — and that r... [1108 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/science/human-evolution-neanderthal-sex.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/03/science/26HS-NEANDERTHAL/26HS-NEANDERTHAL-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T22:24:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "dd309970e91453488197b2eb04689ca1",
            "title": "Mars Ice Could Be Hiding Life From 50 Million Years Ago, and NASA Just Proved It!",
            "description": "NASA’s recent study suggests that Martian ice could preserve life forms, or their traces, for over 50 million years, making it a prime target for future exploration missions.",
            "content": "For decades, Mars has been seen as a cold, radiation-blasted desert where any trace of life would have long since vanished. Yet beneath its frozen surface, vast reservoirs of ice may be quietly preserving a biological record stretching back millions ... [3410 chars]",
            "url": "https://indiandefencereview.com/mars-ice-hiding-life-50-million-years-ago/",
            "image": "https://indiandefencereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/mars-ice-could-be-hiding-life-from-50-million-years-ago-and-nasa-just-proved-it-scaled.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T21:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "61a45608aab04b1a644e763fac18ed49",
                "name": "Indian Defence Review",
                "url": "https://indiandefencereview.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0081099f174e8951ea06e63a407c4a46",
            "title": "Un telescopio analizará 20 mil millones de galaxias y generará un detallado mapa del universo",
            "description": "La instalación científica ubicada en Chile comenzará a capturar imágenes inéditas y procesará a diario enormes volúmenes de información para abrir una nueva etapa en la comprensión cósmica",
            "content": "Cuando el Observatorio Vera C. Rubin comience su próxima misión, transformará la mirada humana sobre el universo al capturar imágenes inéditas de 20 mil millones de galaxias a lo largo de la próxima década, un esfuerzo que permitirá observar detalles... [5110 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.infobae.com/america/ciencia-america/2026/02/27/un-telescopio-analizara-20-mil-millones-de-galaxias-y-generara-un-detallado-mapa-del-universo/",
            "image": "https://www.infobae.com/resizer/v2/S2Z2ZMHIZRCCVC6WSEWRDHX2CI.png?auth=366d5139e1fc3dd350e4505b40f83218933c2c56ad574560243d6526f3328e51&smart=true&width=1200&height=630&quality=85",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T19:31:00Z",
            "lang": "es",
            "source": {
                "id": "32b61a562295a89bd1b5b9b4fc2ff364",
                "name": "Infobae",
                "url": "https://www.infobae.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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