Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 30, 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

Sitting: As Bad As Smoking?!

Science Vs · 32 min

#2

The Story of Stories

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#3

Mothman Mythology (YES, MOTHMAN) with Jeff Wamsley

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 23 min

#4

People are microdosing GLP-1s for weight loss. Is it safe?

Science Friday · 18 min

#5

Constitution in the Crosshairs: The 349th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 1 h 36 min

#6

Bose-Einstein Condensate, Collisions, The Physics of Fire –TYTYK

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 42 min

#7

Destroying forever chemicals, hyperlocal pollution sensing, and an experiment in queer parenthood

Science Magazine Podcast · 50 min

#8

How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

The Joy of Why · 59 min

#9

The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries in History 🔎🌍 | Secrets That Still Puzzle the World | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 2 h 53 min

#10

Can you entangle three particles?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe · 50 min

#11

Octomom

Radiolab · 34 min

#12

Ghosts - Isy Suttie, Laurence Rickard, Ciarán O'Keeffe and Chris French

The Infinite Monkey Cage · 42 min

New in Science

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

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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

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4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 1
6

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 1
7

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

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8

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 3
9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

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10

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

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11

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 3
12

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 1
13

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 1
14

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 3
15

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 3
16

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 8
17

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 2
18

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
19

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 1
20

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 3
21

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

Corinna Bellizzi

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22

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▼ 2
23

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 4
24

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2
25

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

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26

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 2
27

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 1
28

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 2
29

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▲ 10
30

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 2
31

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▲ 3
32

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 3
33

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 6
34

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 13
35

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 17
36

Particles of Thought

GBH

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37

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 4
38

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 2
39

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 2
40

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3
41

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 10
42

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 7
43

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

▲ 17
44

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 2
45

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▼ 3
46

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 2
47

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▲ 6
48

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 3
49

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 1
50

3SchemeQueens

3SchemeQueens

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