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Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 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 Buried Bodies Case

Radiolab · 49 min

#2

SC EP:1303 Happy Halloween

Sasquatch Chronicles · 1 h 30 min

#3

The Game Theory of AI with Aza Raskin

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 h 20 min

#4

The Story of Stories

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#5

Mothman Mythology (YES, MOTHMAN) with Jeff Wamsley

Ologies with Alie Ward · 1 h 23 min

#6

The Skeptics Guide #1112 - Oct 31 2026

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe ·

#7

Is 100 Better Than 101?

The Rest Is Science · 44 min

#8

#500 — The Playing Animal

Making Sense with Sam Harris · 27 min

#9

Sitting: As Bad As Smoking?!

Science Vs · 32 min

#10

The Pentagon's UFO Debunker Is Lying. We Can Prove It.

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp · 56 min

#11

Are We in a SIMULATION? | Brian Keating on the Arora Podcast

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating · 1 h 54 min

#12

The Surprising Power of Notebooks & What Screens Are Really Doing to Us - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know · 47 min

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Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

— 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

▲ 1 3

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

▼ 1 4

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

— 5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

— 6

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1 7

Big Ideas Lab

Mission.org

▼ 1 8

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

▲ 8 9

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

▼ 1 10

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

▼ 1 11

Short Wave

NPR

▼ 1 12

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

— 13

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

▼ 2 14

Health Optimization Medicine Podcast

Health Optimization Medicine and Practice

— 15

Safe Aerospace Podcast

Ryan Graves

▲ 178 16

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

▼ 1 17

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 4 18

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

▲ 10 19

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

▼ 1 20

Pursuit of the Paranormal

Ash and Greg

▲ 4 21

Unexplainable

Vox

— 22

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 5 23

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

Corinna Bellizzi

▼ 3 24

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 5 25

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

▼ 2 26

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

▼ 4 27

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

▼ 1 28

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

▲ 4 29

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

Sean Carroll

▼ 2 30

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

▼ 5 31

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

▲ 18 32

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 2 33

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

▼ 3 34

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

▼ 3 35

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

▲ 1 36

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

▼ 7 37

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

▼ 2 38

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

▲ 1 39

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

▲ 5 40

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

▲ 8 41

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 8 42

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

▼ 5 43

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

▲ 2 44

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

▼ 6 45

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

▼ 3 46

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

▼ 6 47

Outside/In

NHPR

▼ 6 48

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

▼ 5 49

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

▲ 2 50

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

▲ 46

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