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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 11, 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

Where Have The Insects Gone?? With Dr. Jessica Ware

Science Vs · 45 min

#2

Blowing Up Your Life

Hidden Brain · 1 h 26 min

#3

#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 37 min

#4

Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) Encore with Marshall Shepherd

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 16 min

#5

Did scientists just find a dark matter particle? Maybe

Science Friday · 12 min

#6

EP: 462 Werewolves, a White Pony, and a 100 Year Promise with Marcus Young

Blurry Creatures · 2 h 28 min

#7

60 Words

Radiolab · 58 min

#8

Why Craters Are Round, Size of Life, The Real Length of Day – TYTYK

StarTalk Radio · 46 min

#9

What Is Collagen All About?

The Rest Is Science · 41 min

#10

Making Sense of Measles Misinformation

Osterholm Update ·

#11

The Elevator Metaphor: Portrait of American Idiots

TheThinkingAtheist · 59 min

#12

How to Protect Your Brain as You Age

The Science of Happiness · 25 min

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

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 5

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 6

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 7

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▲ 1 8

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 1 9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

— 10

Short Wave

NPR

— 11

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

— 12

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 4 13

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 14 14

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

▼ 1 15

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 3 16

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▲ 1 17

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 3 18

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 3 19

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 3 20

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2 21

Unexplainable

Vox

▼ 2 22

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 2 23

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 1 24

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 3 25

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2 26

NOVA Remix

GBH

— 27

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

▲ 1 28

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 3 29

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

— 30

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 2 31

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 32

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 1 33

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▲ 3 34

Weather Geeks

Weather Group Television

▲ 18 35

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 2 36

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 1 37

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 2 38

Beastly History

Wild Beast

— 39

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 3 40

ScienceSphere

Stephania Mills

▲ 7 41

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 10 42

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 3 43

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

▼ 9 44

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 1 45

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 4 46

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

— 47

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▼ 2 48

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 2 49

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▼ 9 50

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 6

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