Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 13, 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

#502 — The Rebuke

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 26 min

#2

Dropping the Mask

Hidden Brain · 1 h 43 min

#3

Where does federal science funding stand now?

Science Friday · 12 min

#4

Cosmic Queries – Curiosity, Conspiracies & the God Particle with Jordan Klepper

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 18 min

#5

Chickenology (HENS & ROOSTERS) Part 2 Encore with Tove Danovich

Ologies with Alie Ward · 47 min

#6

Can scientists reverse your age?

Short Wave · 14 min

#7

More Perfect: Cruel and Unusual

Radiolab · 55 min

#8

What Life Used to Smell Like & How the Telephone Changed Us

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#9

Consent in the Case of Russell Brand: The 351st Evolutionary Lens w/Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 28 min

#10

Nick Jarratt | The Book of Enoch, UFOs & the Watchers

That UFO Podcast · 2 h 01 min

#11

The Secrets Michael Keeps From Himself

The Rest Is Science · 35 min

#12

What can we do about antibiotic resistance?

Unexplainable · 23 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

—
2

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

—
3

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 1
4

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 1
5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▼ 2
6

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

—
7

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 6
8

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1
9

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 1
10

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 4
11

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
12

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 1
13

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1
14

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 4
15

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

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16

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 1
17

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 2
18

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2
19

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 1
20

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1
21

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 6
22

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1
23

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 2
24

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 4
25

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 7
26

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

▲ 61
27

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 4
28

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 6
29

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 7
30

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▲ 11
31

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 5
32

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

▲ 20
33

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

—
34

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▼ 5
35

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 11
36

Science Quickly

Scientific American

▼ 8
37

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 2
38

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 59
39

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

Podium

▼ 2
40

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▼ 6
41

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

▼ 11
42

Ancient Aliens

PodcastOne

▼ 4
43

Science Weekly

The Guardian

▲ 24
44

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

▲ 18
45

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

▼ 2
46

Astrum Space

Astrum

▲ 1
47

UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast

Gamut Podcast Network

▼ 7
48

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

▼ 9
49

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

▼ 5
50

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

▲ 25

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