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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 13, 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

Math Vs Machine

Radiolab · 31 min

#2

Wolf Attack - The Worst Way to Wake Up

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

#3

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Hidden Brain · 1 h 32 min

#4

What’s cooler than being cool?

Unexplainable · 28 min

#5

Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) with Austin Lim

Ologies with Alie Ward · 2 h 17 min

#6

They’re Building the Prison Around Us: Josh Walkos on DarkHorse

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 28 min

#7

SC EP:1297 Doctors Encounter Sasquatch

Sasquatch Chronicles · 1 h 27 min

#8

Are attachment styles more than a social media trend?

Science Friday · 17 min

#9

Something Weird Is Going On With Placebos

The Rest Is Science · 49 min

#10

Ask Me Anything | October 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 3 h 31 min

#11

The Skeptics Guide #1109 - Oct 10 2026

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe ·

#12

The Toxic Ingredients Hiding in Your “Healthy” Food with Vani Hari (Food Babe)

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz · 1 h 11 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

▲ 1 2

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▲ 1 3

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 2 4

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

— 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▲ 2 8

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 1 9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 1 10

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 4 11

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

— 12

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

— 13

Short Wave

NPR

— 14

Unexplainable

Vox

▲ 2 15

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 5 16

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▼ 1 17

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 3 18

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 4 19

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1 20

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 1 21

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 4 22

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

Sean Carroll

▲ 1 23

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 17 24

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 19 25

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 6 26

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 2 27

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 28

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 41 29

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 3 30

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 2 31

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 5 32

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 2 33

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 2 34

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 9 35

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 6 36

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▼ 1 37

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 3 38

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 16 39

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▲ 19 40

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 21 41

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 18 42

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▲ 4 43

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 14 44

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

▲ 11 45

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 8 46

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

▼ 4 47

In Defense of Plants Podcast

In Defense of Plants

▲ 16 48

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 4 49

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

▼ 11 50

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 2

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