Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 7, 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

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Hidden Brain · 1 h 32 min

#2

Cosmic Queries – Light Sails & Quantum Scales

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 00 min

#3

EP: 471 The Seven Kings of the Antichrist with Ryan Pitterson

Blurry Creatures · 1 h 56 min

#4

Apollo 11 — The Complete Story of Humanity’s First Moon Landing 🚀🌕 | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 42 min

#5

What's missing from the lethal injection conversation

Short Wave · 14 min

#6

How important ideas get reawakened, with David Byrne

Science Friday · 16 min

#7

There's a bear in my swimming pool!

The Wild with Chris Morgan · 48 min

#8

Grusch’s Rogan Fallout & Jake Barber’s UFO Mothership Claims

That UFO Podcast · 2 h 12 min

#9

A 4-Track Mind

Radiolab · 21 min

#10

What They Don’t Teach You in School About the American Civil War 🇺🇸⚔️ | The Untold Story | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 4 h 15 min

#11

The Strange Disappearance of UFOs: Last of the Great Close Encounters | MHP 10.06.26.

The Micah Hanks Program · 1 h 00 min

#12

Science-backed guidance for healthy screen time

Short Wave · 12 min

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

▲ 1
3

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 1
4

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

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5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▲ 2
6

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 1
7

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▼ 1
8

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 1
9

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1
10

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 2
11

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

—
12

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 1
13

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 1
14

Unexplainable

Vox

—
15

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

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16

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

—
17

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

—
18

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 6
19

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▲ 1
20

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 1
21

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 2
22

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

—
23

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

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24

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

Sean Carroll

▲ 2
25

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▲ 2
26

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1
27

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 7
28

Science Clear+Vivid Podcast

Alan Alda

▼ 10
29

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 1
30

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 1
31

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 1
32

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▲ 3
33

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 2
34

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 2
35

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 3
36

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▼ 3
37

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 13
38

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 4
39

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 17
40

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

—
41

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▲ 14
42

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 5
43

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 5
44

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3
45

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 7
46

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 6
47

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 4
48

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1
49

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▼ 3
50

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▼ 1

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