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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 26, 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

Grass Apes

Radiolab · 22 min

#2

'Super' El Niño is coming. What should you expect?

Short Wave · 12 min

#3

Stress: The Science of Chilling Out

Science Vs · 40 min

#4

Cosmic Queries – Space Junk! with Moriba Jah

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 54 min

#5

Salixology (WILLOWS & SCULPTURE) with Patrick Dougherty

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 13 min

#6

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#7

Are new treatments for celiac disease on the horizon?

Science Friday · 11 min

#8

When the Veil Failed

Expanded Perspectives · 1 h 09 min

#9

#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 1 h 32 min

#10

They Go Low, We Go High? (with Cecil Cicirello)

TheThinkingAtheist · 1 h 08 min

#11

EP: 466 Inside Hollywood's Babylon System from a Child Actor Who Escaped with Todd Coconato

Blurry Creatures · 1 h 38 min

#12

Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?

Science Friday · 22 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

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

— 3

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

— 4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 1 6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▼ 1 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 9

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 3 10

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1 11

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

Corinna Bellizzi

— 12

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 1 13

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▼ 3 14

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

— 15

Unexplainable

Vox

— 16

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

— 17

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

— 18

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

— 19

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 1 20

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 1 21

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 22

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

— 23

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 24

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

— 25

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▲ 10 26

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 27

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 2 28

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

— 29

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 3 30

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 1 31

The Human Experiment

Ethan Reed

▲ 17 32

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 2 33

Science Quickly

Scientific American

▲ 5 34

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 35

Particles of Thought

GBH

▼ 2 36

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 5 37

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 6 38

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 1 39

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 4 40

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 3 41

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 5 42

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 12 43

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 10 44

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▼ 4 45

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

▼ 1 46

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 4 47

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 5 48

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▼ 2 49

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

— 50

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 19

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