Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 6, 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

How Love Really Works

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#2

How Music Can Be Medicine, with Dr. Dan Levitin

Science Vs · 33 min

#3

Chickenology (HENS & ROOSTERS) Part 1 Encore with Tove Danovich

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 19 min

#4

The Buried Bodies Case

Radiolab · 49 min

#5

Meet the tiny, see-through fish that can regenerate its brain

Science Friday · 17 min

#6

Predicting elections is getting harder. What did the midterms teach us?

Short Wave · 12 min

#7

GLP-1 targets beyond obesity, and misusing brain data

Science Magazine Podcast · 46 min

#8

The Habitable Worlds Observatory with Evgenya Shkolnik

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 50 min

#9

Why Sharks Attack The Internet

The Rest Is Science · 49 min

#10

What Do the Midterms Mean for Public Health?

Osterholm Update ·

#11

Leaf it to Nature

The Infinite Monkey Cage · 42 min

#12

Listener Questions #55

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe · 42 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▲ 1
2

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▲ 4
3

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 2
4

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 6
5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▼ 2
6

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 3
7

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 1
8

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 5
9

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 15
10

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 12
11

Unexplainable

Vox

▲ 7
12

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 4
13

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 10
14

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 5
15

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

▼ 14
16

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 10
17

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 27
18

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 17
19

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

Sean Carroll

▲ 6
20

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 9
21

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 7
22

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 24
23

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

▲ 139
24

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▲ 58
25

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 27
26

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 5
27

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▲ 12
28

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

▲ 27
29

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 13
30

Science Quickly

Scientific American

▲ 26
31

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 11
32

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 60
33

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▲ 25
34

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▲ 2
35

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▲ 29
36

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

▲ 18
37

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▲ 44
38

UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast

Gamut Podcast Network

▲ 72
39

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

▲ 58
40

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 2
41

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

▲ 115
42

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 5
43

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

▲ 118
44

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

▲ 26
45

Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo

Bigfoot and Beyond LLC

▲ 49
46

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

▲ 92
47

Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters

W.J. Sheehan

▲ 120
48

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

▲ 88
49

Science Weekly

The Guardian

▲ 44
50

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

▲ 53

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