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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 14, 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

Why Am I Unhappy?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 33 min

#2

The Chemistry of Life with Kate the Chemist

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 42 min

#3

The sound of fear: Why so many animals scream

Short Wave · 13 min

#4

Math Vs Machine

Radiolab · 31 min

#5

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet

Science Friday · 17 min

#6

Wolf Attack - The Worst Way to Wake Up

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

#7

Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) with Austin Lim

Ologies with Alie Ward · 2 h 17 min

#8

Ep 224 Snake Oil: The Great American Fraud

This Podcast Will Kill You · 57 min

#9

A 750-mile misadventure in the Grand Canyon

The Wild with Chris Morgan · 1 h 01 min

#10

How High Can You Build a Seawall?

Are We Doomed? · 32 min

#11

Ask Me Anything | October 2026

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

#12

UFO Arms Race, Eric Weinstein & Jay Stratton’s Book Preview

That UFO Podcast · 2 h 10 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▲ 3 2

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

▼ 1 3

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 1 4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 1 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

— 9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 10

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 3 11

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 1 12

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 1 13

Unexplainable

Vox

▲ 1 14

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 6 15

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 1 16

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 4 17

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 2 18

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 3 19

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1 20

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 21

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 27 22

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 5 23

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 5 24

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2 25

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 2 26

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 2 27

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 1 28

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 1 29

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 8 30

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 1 31

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 2 32

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

— 33

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 3 34

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 9 35

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▲ 18 36

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 11 37

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 38

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 2 39

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 5 40

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 7 41

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

— 42

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

▲ 2 43

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 12 44

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 6 45

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

▲ 108 46

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▼ 10 47

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▼ 8 48

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▼ 6 49

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▼ 11 50

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 5

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