Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 26, 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

Octomom

Radiolab · 34 min

#2

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#3

SC EP:1301 The Members Encounters

Sasquatch Chronicles · 1 h 04 min

#4

The Dark Origins of Halloween 🎃🕯️ | Ancient Celtic Rituals, Ghost Stories & the Birth of a Spooky Tradition | Boring History For Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 16 min

#5

Earth’s Tilt Makes Time Slippery

The Rest Is Science · 53 min

#6

Spooky Science with Mary Roach

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 44 min

#7

The Skeptics Guide #1111 - Oct 24 2026

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe ·

#8

Broomology (BROOMS) with Cate O’Connell-Richards

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 21 min

#9

Why are we changing the way we keep time?

Science Friday · 14 min

#10

The Black Death ☠️🏰 | How the Plague Ravaged Medieval Europe | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 51 min

#11

When Pleasure Backfires & The Truth About Losing Weight - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know · 53 min

#12

Testosterone: Do We All Need a Boost?

Science Vs · 39 min

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Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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2

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

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3

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

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4

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

—
5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

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6

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1
7

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 1
8

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

—
9

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

—
10

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 1
11

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 4
12

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 2
13

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 1
14

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 1
15

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 3
16

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

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17

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 1
18

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1
19

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▲ 3
20

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1
21

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 1
22

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

Sean Carroll

▲ 1
23

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 4
24

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

—
25

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

Corinna Bellizzi

—
26

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 5
27

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 5
28

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
29

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

—
30

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

—
31

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

▲ 11
32

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▲ 3
33

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

—
34

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 6
35

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 5
36

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

▲ 1
37

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▼ 1
38

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 4
39

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 8
40

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▲ 8
41

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 3
42

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 9
43

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

—
44

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 5
45

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

▲ 36
46

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▼ 2
47

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 1
48

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

▼ 7
49

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

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50

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▼ 5

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