Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 8, 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

#496 — The Oldest Lie

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 1 h 40 min

#2

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Hidden Brain · 1 h 32 min

#3

Collagen Peptides: Should You Take Them?

Science Vs · 35 min

#4

2,000 Years of Mysterious Japanese History 🗾⛩️ | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 4 h 10 min

#5

Ancient Crimes in Modern Times: The 346th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 2 h 13 min

#6

Cosmic Queries – Light Sails & Quantum Scales

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 00 min

#7

EP: 471 The Seven Kings of the Antichrist with Ryan Pitterson

Blurry Creatures · 1 h 56 min

#8

The Nobel winner searching for deep-space neutrinos in Antarctica

Science Friday · 13 min

#9

The punk rock life of cephalopods

Science Friday · 18 min

#10

What Was A Mammoth Doing At The Bottom Of The Sea?

The Rest Is Science · 42 min

#11

What's missing from the lethal injection conversation

Short Wave · 14 min

#12

How does music move us? (feat. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath)

Unexplainable · 32 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

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2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

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3

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

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4

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▲ 1
5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 2
6

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 3
8

Short Wave

NPR

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9

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

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10

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 1
11

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 1
12

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

▲ 3
13

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 3
14

Unexplainable

Vox

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15

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 1
16

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 3
17

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1
18

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1
19

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 1
20

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 7
21

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

Sean Carroll

▲ 3
22

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▲ 1
23

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 4
24

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 2
25

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 1
26

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 1
27

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 6
28

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 2
29

Science Clear+Vivid Podcast

Alan Alda

▼ 1
30

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 1
31

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 6
32

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▲ 9
33

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

Corinna Bellizzi

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34

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 8
35

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 3
36

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 4
37

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 3
38

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 9
39

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▲ 14
40

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 1
41

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▼ 5
42

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 1
43

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 4
44

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 9
45

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 5
46

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 2
47

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 7
48

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▼ 2
49

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 4
50

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▼ 1

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