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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 3, 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

A 4-Track Mind

Radiolab · 21 min

#2

What Is Intelligence? With David Krakauer

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 17 min

#3

How the Teenage Brain Works, with Lisa Damour

Science Vs · 58 min

#4

Did Trump Authorize The Shootdown Of UFOs?

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp · 47 min

#5

The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block

Science Friday · 12 min

#6

How to Make a Difference: Part 2

Hidden Brain · 49 min

#7

Silification Geology (OPALS) with Patrice Rey

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 12 min

#8

Eating alone may be secretly spiking your blood sugar

Short Wave · 9 min

#9

#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 18 min

#10

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#11

David Grusch on Joe Rogan: New UFO Claims & What Changed

That UFO Podcast · 58 min

#12

What Was America Like Before Columbus? 🌎🏹 | The Complete History of Indigenous Peoples | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 46 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

— 2

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▲ 1 3

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▼ 1 4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▲ 2 5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 6

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▼ 2 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 4 9

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1 10

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 1 11

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 12

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 2 13

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 1 14

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 1 15

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

— 16

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 7 17

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 1 18

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 2 19

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 2 20

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1 21

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3 22

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

— 23

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▲ 1 24

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 3 25

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▲ 22 26

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 4 27

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▲ 5 28

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 3 29

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 30

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 31

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

▼ 4 32

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 17 33

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 7 34

The Human Experiment

Ethan Reed

▲ 9 35

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 1 36

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 5 37

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 4 38

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 1 39

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 4 40

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 2 41

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 42

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 2 43

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 59 44

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 5 45

ScienceSphere

Stephania Mills

— 46

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 7 47

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

▲ 36 48

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 12 49

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 15 50

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

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