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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": 8039,
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "Pluto’s heart was likely created by an ancient collision",
            "description": "Astronomers believe a planetary body collided with Pluto early in its history to create a gigantic heart-shaped feature on the dwarf planet.",
            "content": "Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.\nCNN —\nA huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Hori... [6332 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/world/pluto-heart-planetary-collision-scn/index.html",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/1a-20240415-medienmitteilung-unibe-plutos-herz-illustration-unibe-thibautroger.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2024-04-19T21:53:00Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase.",
            "description": "Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.",
            "content": "It used to be that you could put a black light at the edge of a cornfield at night and expect a bountiful harvest of moths the next morning. For entomologists, such light traps have provided an invaluable record of moth numbers. But in recent decades... [1166 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/science/moths-light-attracted.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/19/climate/19tb-moths/19tb-moths-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2024-04-19T19:01:12Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Scientists Puzzled by 'Rule of Four' Pattern Found in Most Materials",
            "description": "A strange pattern has been discovered underlying the structures of most materials at the molecular level.",
            "content": "A bizarre \"Rule of Four\" has been identified in the basic structure of the majority of inorganic materials—and scientists are stumped as to why.\nThe pattern is found in the so-called \"unit cell\" of the materials—the smallest possible repeating part o... [3327 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/chemistry-crystals-materials-structure-mystery-1892321",
            "image": "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2381045/material.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2024-04-19T17:13:44Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Newsweek",
                "url": "https://www.newsweek.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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