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Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 3,946 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull phys.org

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from phys.org, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=phys.org&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/rss?host=phys.org&size=50"open it →

JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/feed.json?host=phys.org&size=50"open it →

Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=phys.org&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=phys.org&size=5"
3,946
articles indexed
2,029
in the last 30 days
81
median per day
1
languages
247 min
median crawl lag
06.08 → 22.10
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 60 days. The busiest hour is 14:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-06: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-24: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-25: 96 articles2026-08-26: 94 articles2026-08-27: 90 articles2026-08-28: 55 articles2026-08-29: 11 articles2026-08-30: 13 articles2026-08-31: 94 articles2026-09-01: 88 articles2026-09-02: 90 articles2026-09-03: 104 articles2026-09-04: 69 articles2026-09-05: 18 articles2026-09-06: 11 articles2026-09-07: 70 articles2026-09-08: 98 articles2026-09-09: 117 articles2026-09-10: 102 articles2026-09-11: 66 articles2026-09-12: 16 articles2026-09-13: 16 articles2026-09-14: 91 articles2026-09-15: 76 articles2026-09-16: 123 articles2026-09-17: 103 articles2026-09-18: 57 articles2026-09-19: 20 articles2026-09-20: 12 articles2026-09-21: 91 articles2026-09-22: 81 articles2026-09-23: 108 articles2026-09-24: 106 articles2026-09-25: 61 articles2026-09-26: 17 articles2026-09-27: 14 articles2026-09-28: 94 articles2026-09-29: 94 articles2026-09-30: 100 articles2026-10-01: 89 articles2026-10-02: 68 articles2026-10-03: 21 articles2026-10-04: 16 articles2026-10-05: 81 articles2026-10-06: 92 articles2026-10-07: 109 articles2026-10-08: 98 articles2026-10-09: 63 articles2026-10-10: 15 articles2026-10-11: 14 articles2026-10-12: 77 articles2026-10-13: 90 articles2026-10-14: 114 articles2026-10-15: 81 articles2026-10-16: 81 articles2026-10-17: 17 articles2026-10-18: 20 articles2026-10-20: 20 articles2026-10-21: 110 articles2026-10-22: 78 articles09-0209-1209-2210-0210-1210-22

The 2 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=phys.org&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 3,946 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 270001: 70102: 120203: 280304: 640405: 940506: 300607: 1660708: 1970809: 2680910: 2891011: 3261112: 2971213: 2951314: 3331415: 2881516: 2801617: 2951718: 2221819: 1891920: 882021: 602122: 602223: 3123
Mon: 622MonTue: 735TueWed: 965WedThu: 853ThuFri: 520FriSat: 135SatSun: 116Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

Languages

The site identifies itself under Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories, Natural 20, Phys.org — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish3,946100.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Supramolecular assembly opens a new route to building quantum materials
2026-10-22 18:00 UTC · nanophysics
A joint research team fabricated a two-dimensional structure that exhibits properties of both the honeycomb and Kagome lattices using organic molecules. They discovered t
How farming helped cause two medieval tsunamis in an Italian lake—and why the danger has returned
2026-10-22 18:00 UTC · earth sciences
On Jan. 3, 1117, a strong earthquake shook northern Italy. A manuscript of the 12th century, kept today in the Vatican Library, recorded what came next: "The lakes also r
Helping microgreens pack even more of a nutritional punch
2026-10-22 17:50 UTC · agriculture
Microgreens are nutritional powerhouses. A team of plant scientists at Penn State conducting research on multiple aspects of microgreens recently published three studies
Amino acid stabilizes material's quantum state above room temperature
2026-10-22 17:40 UTC · nanophysics
New research started with a special material that behaves unusually when it's extremely cold—135 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 93 degrees Celsius), close to the mo
Most AI chatbots stay in the political middle ground, with Grok being an exception
2026-10-22 17:40 UTC · political science
The 2026 election was the first parliamentary election in Sweden since AI chatbots became a serious part of everyday life—not least for young people and first-time voters
DNA and underwater footage reveal two new species of deep-sea siphonophores
2026-10-22 17:30 UTC · plants & animals
New research is shedding light on the diversity of deep-sea siphonophores. A team of scientists from MBARI, the University of Gdańsk, New York University and Yale Univers
Canine cancer patients contribute to next-generation minimally invasive cancer therapies for dogs and humans
2026-10-22 17:20 UTC · veterinary medicine
Natural disasters. Hikes. Long, dark nights alone. For many people, dogs offer a sense of safety and comfort in challenging or uncertain times. Cancer researchers at a ne
Natural forest regeneration helps curb spread of invasive species
2026-10-22 17:20 UTC · plants & animals
The presence of non-native trees is often seen as an obstacle to the recovery of tropical forests regrowing in previously deforested areas. To better understand the behav
The assumption about farm automation that may be wrong
2026-10-22 17:10 UTC · biotechnology
You've likely heard this assumption: When AI-enabled and autonomous machines arrive on the farm, jobs will disappear. But researchers at the University of California, Dav
Public health programs can 'rewire' social networks, study finds
2026-10-22 17:00 UTC · social sciences
An educational program intended to improve maternal and child health fundamentally altered the social fabric of the rural Honduran villages where it was implemented, a ne
Disiplinang walang palo: Challenging common Filipino parenting misbeliefs
2026-10-22 17:00 UTC · social sciences
More frequent spanking is linked to greater anxiety and aggression in children over time, according to international research that includes Filipino families presented by
Stream restoration improves biodiversity but not necessarily ecosystem functioning
2026-10-22 16:50 UTC · plants & animals
The EU Nature Restoration Regulation adopted in 2024 establishes the restoration of ecosystem functions as an objective of stream restoration. But can conventional measur
Study: Pandemic arrest patterns may have deepened existing inequalities in policing
2026-10-22 16:40 UTC · political science
The COVID-19 pandemic was a public health crisis that affected more than the public's health. It brought complex changes across many aspects of society, including having
Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments
2026-10-22 16:40 UTC · plants & animals
A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as they develop
Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide
2026-10-22 16:20 UTC · earth sciences
In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), in collabora
A house ages alongside its occupants, according to researcher
2026-10-22 16:20 UTC · social sciences
Flemish people are very attached to their homes and generally wish to stay there for as long as possible. However, many homes were not designed to be lived in for a lifet
Study highlights need for policymakers to look at digital policies as part of energy, climate planning
2026-10-22 16:00 UTC · environment
A new study underscores the extent to which digital policies cannot be separated from energy policies. The research evaluates the relationship between information communi
A parasite carried by one-third of humanity can't reproduce if one key protein is disabled
2026-10-22 16:00 UTC · cell & microbiology
A protein discovered in a Virginia Tech–led study may open a gateway to treatments for a parasite responsible for a deadly disease in immunocompromised people. The team l

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=phys.org&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=phys.org&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
0%
articles with a byline
100%
articles with sections
162 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 247 min at the median, 269 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 3,946 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories publish per day?

81 on a median day, measured across 60 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.