Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 29, 2026

Best Science Podcasts

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

Trending Science episodes

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#1

The Story of Stories

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#2

Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point

Science Friday · 22 min

#3

Bose-Einstein Condensate, Collisions, The Physics of Fire –TYTYK

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 42 min

#4

Constitution in the Crosshairs: The 349th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 36 min

#5

MAHA’s midterm report card

Short Wave · 13 min

#6

The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries in History 🔎🌍 | Secrets That Still Puzzle the World | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 2 h 53 min

#7

Octomom

Radiolab · 34 min

#8

Do You Recognise These Creepy Sounds?

The Rest Is Science · 32 min

#9

A Shattered Market?: The Counterintuitive Story of the Hormuz Oil Crisis with Rory Johnston

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens · 1 h 37 min

#10

Broomology (BROOMS) with Cate O’Connell-Richards

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 21 min

#11

Zombies, jack-o’-lanterns, and our spooky scary skeletons

Outside/In · 31 min

#12

1,500 Years of Russian History 🇷🇺⏳ | From Ancient Rus to the Modern Era | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 4 h 37 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

▲ 1
2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▼ 1
3

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▲ 1
4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 1
5

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▲ 1
6

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▼ 1
7

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 1
8

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1
9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 1
10

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 1
11

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

—
12

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

—
13

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 1
14

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 5
15

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 2
16

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1
17

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1
18

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 3
19

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1
20

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 1
21

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 2
22

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2
23

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 1
24

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 1
25

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 1
26

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▲ 7
27

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 1
28

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 2
29

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

—
30

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 5
31

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 3
32

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 5
33

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 3
34

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 6
35

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 4
36

Particles of Thought

GBH

▼ 9
37

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3
38

Black Bird Joy: Conversations in Nature

Black Bird Joy

▲ 15
39

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 1
40

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 1
41

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 10
42

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 5
43

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 11
44

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 19
45

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 6
46

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

—
47

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 2
48

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▼ 5
49

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▼ 7
50

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 2

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