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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. 859 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.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=phys.org&size=5"
859
articles indexed
857
in the last 30 days
69
median per day
1
languages
249 min
median crawl lag
06.08 → 06.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 15 days. The busiest hour is 12:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-06: 2 articles2026-08-24: 24 articles2026-08-25: 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 articles08-0608-2508-2708-2908-3109-0209-0409-06
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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 859 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 70001: 20102: 00203: 30304: 210405: 230506: 50607: 410708: 460809: 570910: 641011: 691112: 701213: 681314: 671415: 571516: 561617: 651718: 571819: 411920: 142021: 92122: 92223: 823
Mon: 118MonTue: 184TueWed: 184WedThu: 196ThuFri: 124FriSat: 29SatSun: 24Sun

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, Phys.org — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish859100.0%

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.

Growing up socially isolated linked to young people becoming NEET
2026-09-06 20:30 UTC · social sciences
About 1 million young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training (NEET). The consequences for their health and income can be significant and long-lasti
Advanced optical imaging reveals hidden activity in blood immune cells
2026-09-06 17:30 UTC · cell & microbiology
A routine blood sample contains a diverse collection of immune cells that can reveal important clues about health and disease. These cells, known as peripheral blood mono
How bird movements are helping researchers track a global virus
2026-09-06 17:00 UTC · plants & animals
While the highly virulent avian influenza strain has only recently been discovered on Australian shores, researchers at Deakin University have been working behind the sce
Small molecular substitutions reshape energy pathways behind aggregation-induced emission
2026-09-06 14:30 UTC · analytical chemistry
Certain chemical substances, broadly called luminogens, have an inherent ability to emit light. Most fluorescent molecules emit light in solution but lose their emission
Six unusual structures identified at Earth's core-mantle boundary with the help of deep learning
2026-09-06 13:00 UTC · earth sciences
Since scientists can't drill 2,900 km (1,800 miles) to the boundary between Earth's core and deep mantle, they must use information relayed by seismic waves recorded duri
The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all
2026-09-06 11:00 UTC · evolution
With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African bi
Extreme pressure turns blue pigment into record-long single-atom copper chains
2026-09-06 10:20 UTC · nanomaterials
As the electronics in our technology keep shrinking, traditional silicon-based chips are approaching their fundamental physical limits. Yet the wires connecting them migh
How algorithms are making our environments bland
2026-09-06 09:00 UTC · social sciences
The Pantone color of the year for 2026 is white. It's called Cloud Dancer, which is described as a "lofty white." This choice reflects a growing trend away from color in
'Quiet' pulsar suddenly reveals three glitches in 15 years of observations
2026-09-06 08:40 UTC · astronomy
Using more than 15 years of observations from the Parkes radio telescope, astronomers detected three rotational glitches in the pulsar PSR J1637−4642—a young neutron star
Germany's Isar Aerospace launches rocket into orbit from Norway
2026-09-06 04:00 UTC · space exploration
Germany's Isar Aerospace launched a rocket into orbit from Norway on Saturday as Europe races to boost its ability to economically send satellites into space independentl
Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town
2026-09-06 03:31 UTC · environment
Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fueled by tra
Breaking through AlphaFold's limits to predict how proteins change shape
2026-09-05 17:00 UTC · biotechnology
Conformational changes in proteins are vital to their function yet remain challenging for state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, such as AlphaFold3, to predict. Resear
How much clearcutting can nature sustain? A study determines the ecological limit for boreal forest birds
2026-09-05 16:30 UTC · plants & animals
A study led by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland evaluated, for the first time, an ecological threshold for the amount of clearcutting in boreal forests. According t
FAST finds two mysterious hydrogen clouds with no visible stars
2026-09-05 14:40 UTC · astronomy
Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool galaxy that appear to contain almost no stars. The clouds, discovered with China's FAST radio telescope,
Views from a physician and veterinarian: How to improve barriers to pet care when owners are hospitalized
2026-09-05 14:00 UTC · veterinary medicine
The human-animal bond is often so strong that pet owners may delay or forgo medical treatment or leave a health care facility against medical advice if they have no one t
US study tests psilocybin to fight cancer side effects
2026-09-05 13:30 UTC · molecular & computational biology
Here's a novel idea for countering the painful side effects of chemotherapy: Beforehand, take the hallucinogenic drug found in magic mushrooms.
A black hole as light as 40 tons can exist inside a star if dark matter helps
2026-09-05 13:00 UTC · astronomy
In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not truly black: They slowly lose energy through
Tree species diversity protects forests from climate extremes, study finds
2026-09-05 12:00 UTC · plants & animals
New research has found that tree species diversity can play a crucial role in protecting forests from the growing threat of extreme climate events. The study analyzed dat

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 249 min at the median, 275 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 859 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?

69 on a median day, measured across 15 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.