The UK science feed covers UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grant announcements and policy, Royal Society output, research from Russell Group universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, Edinburgh, Manchester, KCL, etc.), UK Space Agency announcements, and major peer-reviewed study coverage. Coverage draws on dedicated science publications and the science desks at major UK broadcasters and broadsheets. Stories are tagged with category, UK country relevance, and the named researchers detected in the body.
The ocean covers 71% of the planet, and humans have colonized only a small fraction of it. That gap has been on DEEP’s mind since the UK-based ocean engineering company launched...
An ornithologist has a theory as to why the birds are acting "drunk" after feasting on the insects, but the reason could be that they are just "overwhelmed by the food"
“As archaeologists, moments like these are incredibly rare, and we feel privileged to have uncovered and preserved such an important part of the site's story."
Professor Jorick Vink said the grant has the potential to be ‘transformational’ for research worldwide.
The young Greylag Goose was discovered at the North Yorkshire Water Park in Wykeham, near Scarborough
The King spoke with Major Tim Peake when he viewed models of space technology in Oxfordshire.
A 25-foot fibreglass model of a shark — or its rear half, at least — adorning the roof of an otherwise ordinary terraced house in suburban Oxford, England, the Headington Shark ...
The bones of King Alfred - who led English forces to kill thousands of Vikings during his reign - have been traced to a car park in Winchester, Hampshire, where the former monar...
Dozens of scientists and experts have left the United States and Britain to pursue their careers in China this year, citing several reasons including insufficient funding and a ...
The fight to claim a 3.5-tonne space rock didn't just kickstart a publicity battle that divided an empire — it also left a gaping hole in culture. Centuries on, the question rem...
What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny "mini universe" using 24,000 ultracold atoms and showed th...
ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.
The UK also extended the life of some of its existing ones, as part of a worldwide revival of atomic energy.
For the first time, researchers have filmed the elusive goblin shark alive in the deep ocean where it naturally lives. The remarkable sightings greatly expand the shark's known ...
Idea would help deal with danger of conflict in increasingly crowded orbits around Earth
PBS science strand “Nova” is set to explore the “epic journey of life” in a new series about evolution. “Nova: Evolution” is a five-part series from the GBH documentary unit tog...
Submersible used to film Titanic travels with three man team to view the wreck of Quest
Bumblebees are exposed to significantly higher levels of toxic heavy metals than honeybees, even when they forage in the same environment, according to new research from the Uni...
Nature - Kathleen Fisher reveals the recipe for funding innovative science that she brings to the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
Nature - Large language models could advance experiments in the social sciences, but fundamental questions remain about how they should be used to support research.
NewsMesh filters United Kingdom-relevant science coverage into one structured feed, ready to query by the same parameters as the rest of the API.
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?category=science&country=gb). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&category=science&country=gb&limit=20"GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.NewsMesh filters United Kingdom-relevant science coverage into one structured feed, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body.
Call GET /v1/latest?category=science&country=gb. Use /v1/search to add keyword queries on top of the same filters.
Yes. Swap the category parameter (business, sports, technology, health, and more) or drop it entirely to get all United Kingdom coverage from /v1/latest?country=gb.
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: science United Kingdom stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.