Science And Education x402 offerings

English dictionary lookup via dictionaryapi.dev (Wiktionary-sourced). Returns full entries with IPA phonetic transcription(s), audio pronunciation URLs, and meanings grouped by part of speech. Each meaning carries definitions with usage examples and per-definition synonyms + antonyms. CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 — attribute when redistributing. Useful for vocabulary agents, writing assistants, language-learning tools.

Resolve a researcher by ORCID iD. Pass orcid (e.g. 0000-0002-1825-0097, with or without the https://orcid.org/ prefix). Returns the researcher name, affiliations (employments and educations with organization, role, department, years, and a current flag), a total works count, and a works summary (title, type, year, DOI when present). Data: ORCID Public API, free and keyless; per-record visibility is set by the record holder. The canonical author key in scholarly metadata — pair with /api/papers/search, /api/paper/doi-lookup, and /api/research/org (ROR institutions). Use to verify an author identity, current institution, or publication record before citing.

Resolve any organism by scientific or common name to the GBIF taxonomic backbone — the canonical free reference for life on Earth. Returns the accepted scientific name + canonical name, taxonomic rank and status, the match type/confidence, the full classification (kingdom → phylum → class → order → family → genus → species), up to 8 English vernacular (common) names, the count of recorded occurrences worldwide, and the GBIF species URL. Biodiversity, ecology, education, and as a taxonomy normalizer for other pipelines. Fuzzy-matches misspellings. CC-BY GBIF data.

Unified scientific literature search across arXiv (preprints), PubMed (biomedical), and Semantic Scholar (cross-field, with citation counts). Returns a flat array of papers with stable schema: source, sourceId, doi, title, authors, abstract, year, publishedAt, citationCount, url, pdfUrl. Partial failures surface in the errors array rather than failing the whole call. Optional filters: since (YYYY-MM-DD), sources (subset), limit (max 20 per source).

Look up any US public K-12 school (~102k, NCES Common Core of Data). Search by name (partial), district (LEA name, partial), state (2-letter), city, zip, or exact ncessch (12-digit NCES id). Each school: NCES id, name, district + LEA id, address, phone, lat/lon, school level (1=primary 2=middle 3=high 4=other) and type (1=regular 2=special-ed 3=vocational 4=alternative), charter/magnet/virtual flags, enrollment, teacher FTE, grade span, CCD year. Results ordered by enrollment. Higher-ed sibling: /api/edu/college-scorecard. Public-domain federal data.

Resolve a song/recording from MusicBrainz (the open, CC0 music encyclopedia). Pass artist + title, or a free-text query (Lucene supported). Returns ranked recordings with MusicBrainz ID (MBID), title, primary artist, length (ms), first-release date, and disambiguation. Keyless, public-domain core data. Use to canonicalize a track to its MBID or cross-reference identity.

Search the catalog of every cataloged Earth-orbiting object — ~69,000 satellites, rocket bodies, and debris tracked by US Space Force / 18 SDS (via CelesTrak SATCAT). Filter by name (q, e.g. "starlink"), owner/launching country (owner — code like US/PRC/CIS or a name like "china"), object type (type = payload | rocket body | debris | unknown), launch-year range (launchYearFrom/launchYearTo), international/COSPAR designator prefix (intlDesignator, e.g. "2024-"), on-orbit vs decayed (onOrbit), or exact NORAD number (noradId). Each result carries the NORAD id, name, international designator, object type, owner + resolved country, launch date + site, decay date (null = still in orbit), and orbital parameters (period, inclination, apogee, perigee). The envelope total is the full count matching your filter — so onOrbit=true&type=payload answers "how many active satellites are up there", and owner=PRC tells you who launched them. For a satellite's live sub-point position, pass its noradId to /api/space/satellite.

Compute the current position of any cataloged Earth-orbiting satellite by NORAD catalog number (e.g. 25544 = ISS, 20580 = Hubble), using fresh Celestrak orbital elements propagated with SGP4. Returns sub-point latitude/longitude, altitude (km), and speed (km/s) for the requested instant (default: now; pass `at` as an ISO timestamp for any time within a few days of the elements' epoch). Supply observer `lat`/`lon` (and optional altKm) to also get look angles — azimuth, elevation, slant range, and whether the satellite is above your horizon — for visual/antenna pointing. Satellite tracking, pass prediction, ground-station planning. Public-domain orbital data; physical/mission metadata is not included.

Apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude, latitude and angular speed with lunar illumination, computation provenance and measured error bounds.

Deterministic apparent tropical ephemeris with signs, motion, lunar phase, aspects, provenance and audited error bounds.

Academic and scientific paper search API. Search research papers and scholarly literature across arXiv, PubMed, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Semantic Scholar in one call, deduplicated into a ranked result set: title, authors, year, venue, abstract, citation count, DOI, and direct PDF link. Query by keyword or restrict to one source; filter by year range; sort by relevance, recency, or citations. Keyless.

Scholarly paper search for research agents: journal articles, conference papers and preprints from Crossref (150M+ works) and arXiv in one call, deduplicated. Title, authors, year, venue, DOI, citation count, abstract, PDF/full-text links. $0.02 per search.

Ranks problems by difficulty to adapt challenge levels for learners or agents.

Chess Daily answer check — legally validates a complete UCI principal line against the pinned daily puzzle.

Trivia Daily knowledge challenge — answer one deterministically selected and shuffled question from a curated local set.

Chess Daily tactics puzzle — solve a deterministic UTC daily position from a pinned CC0 Lichess subset using legal UCI moves.

Trivia Daily answer check — validates one opaque choice ID and explains correct answers from the curated record.

Twenty-Four daily math puzzle — four numbers to combine into exactly 24; deterministic solvable UTC daily challenge for agent reasoning benchmarks.

Upcoming space events: dockings, spacewalks, landings (next 5)

Trivia Daily answer check — validates one opaque choice ID and explains correct answers from the curated record.

Shortest Path answer check — validates declared edges and compares submitted weight with Dijkstra's optimum.

Use before citing a paper, especially one an LLM produced: checks a DOI, arXiv id or title against Crossref, OpenAlex and arXiv. VERIFIED, RETRACTED, YEAR_DIFFERS, MISMATCH or NOT_FOUND, with the matching record. Errors (never charged): 400 bad input, 422 source could not be fetched or parsed, 429 rate limited (30/min), 502 upstream failed.

Genuinely fascinating fun fact about science, history, nature, or the universe.

Search scholarly literature via OpenAlex: works with metadata and abstracts. POST /v1/literature with a {query} and optional limit and get matching works as one JSON object. Deterministic per index v…