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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 2, 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

The Things We Don't Say

Hidden Brain · 50 min

#2

#491 — The Suicide of the Left

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 25 min

#3

Rogue Planets & Exomoons with David Kipping

StarTalk Radio · 53 min

#4

The Forgotten Origins of Medieval Britain 🏰⚔️ | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 24 min

#5

The science of emotional regulation — and how to do it better

Short Wave · 12 min

#6

Deep Sea Microbiology (UNSEEN OCEAN CRITTERS) with Peter Girguis

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 24 min

#7

Why it's so hard to tell the age of a fungus

Science Friday · 9 min

#8

Dolly Parton's America: Sad Ass Songs

Radiolab · 1 h 04 min

#9

Ep 220 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 1: A charged history

This Podcast Will Kill You · 50 min

#10

Stopping the science that could stop the world

Unexplainable · 36 min

#11

EP: 460 What REALLY Happened On The Mountaintop with Robby Gallaty

Blurry Creatures · 2 h 05 min

#12

The power of the stories we tell about the ocean

Science Friday · 18 min

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

— 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▲ 2 3

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

▼ 1 4

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

▼ 1 5

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▲ 1 6

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▼ 1 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

— 8

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 9

Short Wave

NPR

— 10

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1 11

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 2 12

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 2 13

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

▲ 1 14

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 2 15

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▲ 2 16

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 4 17

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 2 18

Unexplainable

Vox

— 19

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 4 20

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 21

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 22

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

Sean Carroll

— 23

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▲ 2 24

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 2 25

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1 26

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 3 27

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

▲ 2 28

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

— 29

NOVA Remix

GBH

▲ 3 30

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 4 31

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▲ 2 32

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 7 33

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 3 34

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 35

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 8 36

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

— 37

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 38

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▲ 11 39

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 1 40

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 1 41

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

▼ 10 42

Drilled: The Propagandist

Pushkin Industries

▲ 26 43

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 6 44

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

— 45

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 17 46

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

— 47

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▼ 5 48

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 5 49

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▼ 4 50

Beastly History

Wild Beast

▲ 4

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