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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 3, 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

Protein-Maxxing: Is It Actually Bad For Us?

Science Vs · 31 min

#2

Deep Sea Microbiology (UNSEEN OCEAN CRITTERS) with Peter Girguis

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 24 min

#3

The Things We Don't Say

Hidden Brain · 50 min

#4

A New Wave of UFO News - Why They’re Spying on Whistleblowers

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp · 50 min

#5

What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment

Science Friday · 11 min

#6

300 Years of the Romanovs 👑🇷🇺 | The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Imperial Dynasty | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 51 min

#7

Rogue Planets & Exomoons with David Kipping

StarTalk Radio · 53 min

#8

The Scale of the Universe

The Rest Is Science · 49 min

#9

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

Short Wave · 12 min

#10

#491 — The Suicide of the Left

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 25 min

#11

Stopping the science that could stop the world

Unexplainable · 36 min

#12

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

Blurry Creatures · 2 h 05 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

— 3

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 4

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

— 5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

▲ 1 6

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson

▼ 1 7

Short Wave

NPR

▲ 2 8

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 1 9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 1 10

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

— 11

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

— 12

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 12 13

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

— 14

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 2 15

Unexplainable

Vox

▲ 3 16

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 2 17

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 2 18

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▲ 2 19

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 3 20

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 3 21

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 2 22

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 23

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

— 24

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2 25

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

— 26

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

▲ 1 27

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 1 28

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 2 29

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▲ 1 30

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 4 31

NOVA Remix

GBH

▼ 2 32

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 1 33

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 1 34

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 3 35

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▼ 2 36

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▲ 3 37

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▲ 9 38

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

— 39

Cool Worlds Podcast

coolworldslab

▲ 14 40

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▼ 4 41

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

▼ 1 42

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 14 43

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 5 44

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

— 45

Drilled: The Propagandist

Pushkin Industries

▼ 3 46

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 3 47

Beastly History

Wild Beast

▲ 3 48

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 13 49

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 4 50

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▲ 14

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