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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 11, 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

Math Vs Machine

Radiolab · 31 min

#2

Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) with Austin Lim

Ologies with Alie Ward · 2 h 17 min

#3

The science and politics of the new mRNA flu vaccine

Science Friday · 12 min

#4

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Hidden Brain · 1 h 32 min

#5

#497 — The Confidence Man

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 21 min

#6

Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology · 1 h 14 min

#7

Collagen Peptides: Should You Take Them?

Science Vs · 35 min

#8

The Skeptics Guide #1109 - Oct 10 2026

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe ·

#9

One of the toughest parts of ADHD is left out of the diagnosis

Short Wave · 12 min

#10

#496 — The Oldest Lie

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 1 h 40 min

#11

Laundry mistakes that shorten the life of your clothes, plus what happens when you put some much-needed quiet back into your day.

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#12

Cosmic Queries – Light Sails & Quantum Scales

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 00 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▲ 3 2

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 1 3

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

▼ 1 4

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▼ 1 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 1 8

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1 9

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 3 10

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▲ 1 11

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 4 12

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 2 13

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

— 14

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

— 15

Unexplainable

Vox

— 16

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 2 17

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1 18

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 1 19

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

— 20

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 2 21

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 1 22

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 1 23

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

Sean Carroll

— 24

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

— 25

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▲ 34 26

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

— 27

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 2 28

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 1 29

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 2 30

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 2 31

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 2 32

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 4 33

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 3 34

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

— 35

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

— 36

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▲ 7 37

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▲ 15 38

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▲ 19 39

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 10 40

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

▲ 2 41

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

▲ 92 42

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 10 43

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▼ 6 44

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 5 45

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

▼ 7 46

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 1 47

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 3 48

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 8 49

The VPZD Show

Drs. Vinay Prasad & Zubin Damania

▲ 45 50

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▲ 38

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