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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 22, 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

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#2

Broomology (BROOMS) with Cate O’Connell-Richards

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 21 min

#3

Who is Making War on the West? Anthony Rubin on DarkHorse

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 30 min

#4

Ep 225 Peptides: What your peptide dealer doesn’t want you to know

This Podcast Will Kill You · 1 h 04 min

#5

Jay Stratton’s FIRST-EVER Interview - Before The World Knew His Name

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp · 57 min

#6

The Smell of Hell

Radiolab · 43 min

#7

Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist

Science Friday · 29 min

#8

The wild orchid mystery

Unexplainable · 25 min

#9

In Theory with Janna Levin

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 40 min

#10

Can planting more trees make allergies worse?

Short Wave · 11 min

#11

#499 — The Birth of AGI

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 20 min

#12

Why Am I Unhappy?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 33 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

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▲ 2 4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 1 6

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 3 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▲ 1 9

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1 10

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

— 11

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 12

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 7 13

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 1 14

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 3 15

Unexplainable

Vox

— 16

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 2 17

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 4 18

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 2 19

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 16 20

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 2 21

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1 22

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

— 23

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 2 24

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 1 25

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 1 26

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▲ 40 27

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 2 28

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

— 29

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

▼ 3 30

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 3 31

Atomic Adventures

Jess Sharpe

▼ 1 32

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

— 33

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▲ 4 34

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 3 35

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 36

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 18 37

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 8 38

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 9 39

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 40

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 9 41

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 1 42

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 8 43

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 4 44

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 3 45

Science Quickly

Scientific American

— 46

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

▲ 26 47

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 14 48

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 4 49

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▼ 3 50

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▲ 7

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