Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 9, 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

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Hidden Brain · 1 h 32 min

#2

Collagen Peptides: Should You Take Them?

Science Vs · 35 min

#3

#496 — The Oldest Lie

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 1 h 40 min

#4

Why Did So Many Ancient Civilizations Collapse at the Same Time? 🏺🌍 | The Bronze Age Collapse Explained | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 32 min

#5

One of the toughest parts of ADHD is left out of the diagnosis

Short Wave · 12 min

#6

Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) with Austin Lim

Ologies with Alie Ward · 2 h 17 min

#7

Cosmic Queries – Light Sails & Quantum Scales

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 00 min

#8

Ancient Crimes in Modern Times: The 346th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast · 2 h 13 min

#9

The punk rock life of cephalopods

Science Friday · 18 min

#10

CDC Cuts: Understaffed and Overwhelmed

Osterholm Update ·

#11

What if dark matter is more complicated?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe · 44 min

#12

A moon heist, lava fountains, and predicting doomsday

Science Magazine Podcast · 47 min

The chart

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

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

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4

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

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6

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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7

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▲ 8
8

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▲ 3
9

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

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10

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 3
11

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 3
12

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▼ 2
13

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

▲ 11
14

Unexplainable

Vox

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15

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 2
16

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▲ 2
17

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

▼ 1
18

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▲ 9
19

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
20

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▼ 1
21

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

▼ 1
22

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▲ 3
23

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2
24

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▲ 2
25

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▲ 3
26

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 3
27

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 5
28

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 7
29

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 1
30

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 7
31

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▲ 11
32

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▼ 1
33

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

Corinna Bellizzi

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34

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 6
35

Outside/In

NHPR

▲ 12
36

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

▼ 4
37

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▲ 6
38

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 4
39

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 7
40

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 4
41

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

▲ 10
42

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 11
43

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▲ 9
44

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

▼ 5
45

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

▲ 3
46

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

▲ 8
47

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▲ 3
48

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 3
49

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▼ 5
50

Science Clear+Vivid Podcast

Alan Alda

▼ 21

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