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Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 4, 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

#501 — The Performance of Empathy

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 23 min

#3

The Habitable Worlds Observatory with Evgenya Shkolnik

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 50 min

#4

The Buried Bodies Case

Radiolab · 49 min

#5

Let’s Get This Party Started: The 350th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 49 min

#6

Ep 226 Glanders: Straight from the horse’s mouth

This Podcast Will Kill You · 58 min

#7

What a trapped antimatter particle could tell us about reality

Science Friday · 12 min

#8

OpenAI whistleblowers on the fight over AI safety | Machine Gods

Short Wave · 32 min

#9

Mothman Mythology (YES, MOTHMAN) with Jeff Wamsley

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 23 min

#10

Skiers vs bighorn sheep…clash in the Tetons

The Wild with Chris Morgan · 24 min

#11

The Game Theory of AI with Aza Raskin

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 20 min

#12

I Was a Megachurch Pastor (with Dr. Todd Phillips)

TheThinkingAtheist · 48 min

New in Science

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

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The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

— 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

— 3

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 4

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 6

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 7

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 1 8

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 2 9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 10

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 3 11

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

— 12

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 3 13

Pursuit of the Paranormal

Ash and Greg

▲ 5 14

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

— 15

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 2 16

Unexplainable

Vox

— 17

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 4 18

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 2 19

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 7 20

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 4 21

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 4 22

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

Sean Carroll

— 23

Safe Aerospace Podcast

Ryan Graves

▼ 4 24

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1 25

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

— 26

Black Bird Joy: Conversations in Nature

Black Bird Joy

▲ 23 27

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 6 28

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 1 29

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 5 30

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 2 31

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 6 32

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 5 33

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 3 34

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 7 35

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 4 36

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 10 37

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 7 38

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 2 39

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 8 40

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 2 41

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 9 42

生物老師聊自然

小虎老師 & Ian & 弟弟

▼ 6 43

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 8 44

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 20 45

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

▲ 18 46

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

— 47

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 8 48

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

▲ 9 49

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▼ 7 50

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 7

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