Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 5, 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

How Love Really Works

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#2

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

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 19 min

#3

Why is everyone so obsessed with protein?

Science Friday · 18 min

#4

The Buried Bodies Case

Radiolab · 49 min

#5

The Habitable Worlds Observatory with Evgenya Shkolnik

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 50 min

#6

AI is changing mathematics -- but not how you think

Short Wave · 13 min

#7

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

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 49 min

#8

What are you laughing at?

Unexplainable · 19 min

#9

#501 — The Performance of Empathy

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 23 min

#10

The Breakaway Civilization Hypothesis: A Secret History of UFOs? | MHP 11.02.26.

The Micah Hanks Program · 1 h 02 min

#11

Ep 226 Glanders: Straight from the horse’s mouth

This Podcast Will Kill You · 58 min

#12

Why Sharks Attack The Internet

The Rest Is Science · 49 min

New in Science

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

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

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2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

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3

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▲ 2
4

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▲ 2
5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▼ 1
6

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 3
7

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

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8

Short Wave

NPR

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9

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1
10

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 1
11

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 1
12

Pursuit of the Paranormal

Ash and Greg

▲ 1
13

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 2
14

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 3
15

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 3
16

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 5
17

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 24
18

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 2
19

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 4
20

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 6
21

Black Bird Joy: Conversations in Nature

Black Bird Joy

▲ 5
22

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
23

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 2
24

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 5
25

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 3
26

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 2
27

Safe Aerospace Podcast

Ryan Graves

▼ 4
28

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

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29

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 2
30

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▼ 1
31

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

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32

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 7
33

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 5
34

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 1
35

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1
36

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 4
37

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

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38

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 8
39

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 4
40

Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

PBS Nature

▲ 11
41

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 2
42

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 19
43

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 1
44

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 4
45

Stories of Trees

Corazón Latino

▲ 18
46

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1
47

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 3
48

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

▼ 3
49

Constant Wonder

BYUradio

▲ 7
50

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▲ 2

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