Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 24, 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

Octomom

Radiolab · 34 min

#2

Spooky Science with Mary Roach

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 44 min

#3

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#4

Testosterone: Do We All Need a Boost?

Science Vs · 39 min

#5

The dormant viruses in all of us may help explain long COVID

Short Wave · 14 min

#6

Kazuo Ishiguro on emotional truth in sci-fi and in our AI reality

Science Friday · 25 min

#7

Broomology (BROOMS) with Cate O’Connell-Richards

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 21 min

#8

Spider Web 2.0

Unexplainable · 21 min

#9

The Smell of Hell

Radiolab · 43 min

#10

Is Racism Necessary? The 348th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 38 min

#11

Ep 225 Peptides: What your peptide dealer doesn’t want you to know

This Podcast Will Kill You · 1 h 04 min

#12

Beneath the Pyramids

Mysterious Universe · 1 h 17 min

New in Science

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

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

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▲ 2
4

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▼ 2
6

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 2
7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 1
8

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 1
9

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 2
10

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▼ 3
11

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 1
12

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 1
13

Unexplainable

Vox

▲ 4
14

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 4
15

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

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16

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 4
17

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1
18

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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19

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 5
20

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 1
21

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 2
22

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

Sean Carroll

▲ 3
23

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 1
24

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 3
25

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 4
26

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▲ 2
27

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 1
28

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 15
29

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 5
30

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 3
31

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 11
32

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

▲ 2
33

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 3
34

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 2
35

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▼ 2
36

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 6
37

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 7
38

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 1
39

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 2
40

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

▲ 39
41

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 1
42

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▲ 6
43

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 5
44

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

▼ 13
45

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 1
46

Science Quickly

Scientific American

▲ 6
47

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

▼ 12
48

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 7
49

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 5
50

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▲ 1

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