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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 4, 2026

Best Science Podcasts

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

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#1

Protein-Maxxing: Is It Actually Bad For Us?

Science Vs · 31 min

#2

The Things We Don't Say

Hidden Brain · 50 min

#3

What Schools Don’t Teach You About American History 🇺🇸📚 | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 00 min

#4

Deep Sea Microbiology (UNSEEN OCEAN CRITTERS) with Peter Girguis

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 24 min

#5

This Is Your Brain on Psychedelics

StarTalk Radio · 1 h 14 min

#6

A new investigation shows heat is even deadlier than we thought

Short Wave · 14 min

#7

What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment

Science Friday · 11 min

#8

The Kuiper Belt...Revisited

The Supermassive Podcast · 46 min

#9

The quest for dark matter

BBC Inside Science · 26 min

#10

A New Wave of UFO News - Why They’re Spying on Whistleblowers

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp · 50 min

#11

The Surprising Power of Swearing & How to Build Confidence Fast

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#12

Dolly Parton's America: Sad Ass Songs

Radiolab · 1 h 04 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

— 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

— 3

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 2 4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 1 5

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 1 6

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▲ 1 8

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 3 9

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 12 10

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 1 11

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 4 12

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 2 13

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 3 14

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

▼ 1 15

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 2 16

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 4 17

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 3 18

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 3 19

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 20

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 1 21

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 4 22

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 2 23

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 24

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▲ 45 25

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 2 26

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 2 27

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 3 28

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

▼ 2 29

NOVA Remix

GBH

▲ 2 30

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 3 31

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 2 32

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 33

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 20 34

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 4 35

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 5 36

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 3 37

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▲ 9 38

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 1 39

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 3 40

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 5 41

Cool Worlds Podcast

coolworldslab

▼ 2 42

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▼ 1 43

Beastly History

Wild Beast

▲ 4 44

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 10 45

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 2 46

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 10 47

Drilled: The Propagandist

Pushkin Industries

▼ 2 48

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▼ 4 49

ScienceSphere

Stephania Mills

▲ 6 50

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 2

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