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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 28, 2026

Best Science Podcasts

The top 100 Science shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending Science episodes

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#1

Grass Apes

Radiolab · 22 min

#2

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#3

SC EP:1293 Upon Arrival, It Was Deceased

Sasquatch Chronicles · 1 h 06 min

#4

The Skeptics Guide #1107 - Sep 26 2026

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe ·

#5

Cosmic Queries – Space Junk! with Moriba Jah

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 54 min

#6

Salixology (WILLOWS & SCULPTURE) with Patrick Dougherty

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 13 min

#7

Stress: The Science of Chilling Out

Science Vs · 40 min

#8

EP: 468 The Church is Afraid of the Supernatural with Jon Moffitt

Blurry Creatures · 1 h 36 min

#9

'Super' El Niño is coming. What should you expect?

Short Wave · 12 min

#10

Affirmative Action, AI Medical Recording, AI Doomers

The VPZD Show · 1 h 13 min

#11

Why Pets Behave So Strangely & The Surprising Rhythm of Your Brain - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#12

#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 1 h 32 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

— 2

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 3

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▲ 1 4

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 1 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1 9

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 1 10

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 2 11

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 6 12

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 1 13

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1 14

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

— 15

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 4 16

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

▼ 1 17

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 1 18

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 1 19

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 2 20

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 2 21

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1 22

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

— 23

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▲ 7 24

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

— 25

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 2 26

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 1 27

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 4 28

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Sean Carroll

▲ 1 29

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 3 30

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 31

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

▲ 2 32

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 5 33

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▲ 3 34

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▲ 7 35

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

— 36

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 1 37

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

▲ 10 38

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 16 39

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 4 40

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 8 41

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 2 42

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 8 43

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

▲ 28 44

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 9 45

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▼ 7 46

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

— 47

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▼ 2 48

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 2 49

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 2 50

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 7

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