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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 15, 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

Why Am I Unhappy?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 33 min

#2

Orcinology (KILLER WHALES) with Jorge Vélez-Juarbe

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 35 min

#3

What Flock cameras really see – and how

Short Wave · 15 min

#4

Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic

Science Friday · 12 min

#5

The Chemistry of Life with Kate the Chemist

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 42 min

#6

Talking with the dead

Unexplainable · 38 min

#7

Math Vs Machine

Radiolab · 31 min

#8

Ep 224 Snake Oil: The Great American Fraud

This Podcast Will Kill You · 57 min

#9

Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) with Austin Lim

Ologies with Alie Ward · 2 h 17 min

#10

A 750-mile misadventure in the Grand Canyon

The Wild with Chris Morgan · 1 h 01 min

#11

Optionality Collapse: We're Investing in a Future That Won't Exist with Indy Johar

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens · 1 h 28 min

#12

Wolf Attack - The Worst Way to Wake Up

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks · 1 h 17 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

▲ 1 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▼ 1 3

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

— 4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 2 9

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 1 10

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 10 11

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 2 12

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

— 13

Unexplainable

Vox

— 14

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 3 15

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

— 16

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 5 17

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 1 18

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1 19

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 5 20

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 3 21

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 4 22

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 4 23

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 7 24

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 5 25

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 1 26

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 4 27

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 2 28

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 1 29

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 1 30

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

— 31

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

— 32

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

▲ 13 33

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 1 34

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 3 35

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 3 36

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 1 37

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 4 38

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

▲ 4 39

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 2 40

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 4 41

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 42

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▼ 8 43

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 7 44

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 7 45

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 5 46

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 3 47

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▼ 1 48

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 1 49

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 19 50

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▼ 3

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