Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Science

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Great Britain

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Great Britain. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 04 Mar 2026

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03/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 400

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:45:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. BBC World Service (4 shows)

3. Our Media (3 shows)

4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. Libsyn (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	101	Megaphone	83
2	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	14	BBC	43
3	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	242	BBC	38
4	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1151	BBC	28
5	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	169	BBC	38
6	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	42	Acast	94
7	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
8	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
9	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	545	Spotify for Podcasters	28
10	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
11	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
12	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	538	Simplecast	63
13	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	675	BBC	38
14	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
15	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
16	reading rocks	Ian Jackson	Science	17	Buzzsprout	58
17	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
18	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
19	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	814	BBC	28
20	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
21	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	701	Megaphone	63
22	Oceanography \| Marine Science and Ocean Stories	Pine Forest Media \| Environmental Science Podcasts	Science	43	Acast	73
23	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	376	Transistor	73
24	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	360	BBC	38
25	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1301	Acast	48
26	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
27	That's Absurd Please Elaborate	Trace Elements Media	Science	154	ART19	68
28	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	25	Omny Studio	79
29	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	475	Megaphone	53
30	Open Country	BBC Radio 4	Science	469	BBC	28
31	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	26	BBC	38
32	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	125	Acast	59
33	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
34	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
35	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	161	Buzzsprout	48
36	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1604	Unknown	48
37	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	857	Omny Studio	48
38	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	71	BBC	28
39	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
40	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	416	Acast	89
41	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
42	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
43	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
44	When Science Finds a Way	Wellcome	Science	40	Libsyn	89
45	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
46	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	350	Megaphone	69
47	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	402	Transistor	68
48	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
49	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
50	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	516	BBC	48
51	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
52	That's Just Wild	Fresh Air	Science	102	Acast	84
53	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	859	BBC	28
54	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	349	BBC	38
55	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
56	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
57	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	357	PRX	53
58	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
59	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	242	Unknown	73
60	The Artificial Human	BBC Radio 4	Science	55	BBC	43
61	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
62	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
63	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	632	Spreaker	69
64	Big Cat Conversations	Rick Minter	Science	144	Buzzsprout	48
65	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	90	Buzzsprout	72
66	All In The Mind	ABC Australia	Health & Fitness	1045	ABC Australia	43
67	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	249	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	445	Megaphone	62
69	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	479	ABC Australia	32
70	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
71	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
72	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	437	Libsyn	52
73	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	391	Podbean	41
74	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
75	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	689	Megaphone	59
76	Dr Giles Yeo Chews the Fat	Orion Publishing Ltd.	Science	9	Acast	79
77	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	144	Omny Studio	42
78	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
79	Wild Lives	Our Media	Science	17	Megaphone	73
80	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
81	Naturebang	BBC Radio 4	Science	41	BBC	33
82	Terrible Lizards	Iszi Lawrence and David Hone	Science	144	Libsyn	78
83	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	348	Simplecast	53
84	The Knepp Wilding Podcast	Knepp.co.uk	Science	53	Buzzsprout	37
85	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	503	Buzzsprout	42
86	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
87	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
88	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	680	Spreaker	59
89	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	320	BBC	38
90	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	638	Spreaker	54
91	ZSL's Wildest Moments	ZSL	Science	11	Libsyn	83
92	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
93	Physics World Weekly Podcast	Physics World	Science	100	Blubrry	43
94	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1358	Megaphone	58
95	New Scientist Weekly	New Scientist	Science	63	Acast	73
96	Biotech Hangout	Daphne Zohar, Josh Schimmer, Brad Loncar, Tim Opler and more	Science	169	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Science Friction	ABC Australia	Science	250	ABC Australia	53
98	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
99	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	150	Simplecast	58
100	Great Mysteries of Physics	The Conversation	Science	7	Acast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Great Britain

The podcast landscape in Great Britain is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Great Britain.
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