Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. 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 01 Jun 2026

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06/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 495

Frequency: every 8 days

Duration: 31:26:43

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

5. Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (15 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (13 shows)

4. Spreaker (12 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	673	Simplecast	63
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1344	Megaphone	58
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	628	Simplecast	48
4	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1135	Simplecast	62
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	535	Simplecast	63
6	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	729	Libsyn	43
7	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	520	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1416	Simplecast	63
9	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	25	PRX	69
10	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	347	Megaphone	69
11	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	510	Libsyn	48
12	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1568	Simplecast	58
13	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	215	Megaphone	73
14	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	62	Simplecast	73
15	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	473	Megaphone	63
16	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	305	Omny Studio	62
17	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1109	Libsyn	38
18	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	497	Buzzsprout	42
19	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	94	Megaphone	83
20	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	446	Libsyn	42
21	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
22	Songbirding	Rob Porter	Science	266	Transistor	69
23	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
24	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	313	Megaphone	53
25	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	158	Buzzsprout	53
26	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
27	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	850	Omny Studio	48
28	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
29	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	40	Acast	94
30	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
31	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
32	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	368	Transistor	73
33	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
34	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	195	Libsyn	62
35	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	364	Simplecast	52
36	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	415	Libsyn	37
37	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1593	Unknown	48
38	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	340	Simplecast	63
39	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	336	Acast	49
40	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	7	Simplecast	52
41	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	118	N/A	N/A
42	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	662	Megaphone	32
43	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	376	ART19	42
44	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	643	Libsyn	58
45	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	429	Libsyn	52
46	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
47	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
48	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	411	Megaphone	48
49	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1146	BBC	28
50	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	40	Spotify for Podcasters	48
51	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
52	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	88	ART19	52
53	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
54	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	237	Megaphone	63
55	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	140	Omny Studio	42
56	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1975	Megaphone	32
57	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	810	Spreaker	54
58	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	38	Libsyn	53
59	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	244	Spreaker	53
60	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	222	Simplecast	58
61	Life List: A Birding Podcast	George Armistead, Alvaro Jaramillo, and Mollee Brown	Science	145	Buzzsprout	62
62	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
63	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	626	Spreaker	69
64	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	562	Spreaker	49
65	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
66	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	442	Megaphone	62
67	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
68	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	493	Audioboom	53
69	The Field Guides	The Field Guides	Science & Medicine	104	Squarespace	49
70	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	239	Spotify for Podcasters	28
71	Curiosity Theory	Dr. Dakotah Tyler & Justin Shaifer	Science	61	Buzzsprout	68
72	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	306	Spreaker	84
73	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	123	Acast	59
74	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	267	Omny Studio	63
75	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	368	PRX	53
76	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1095	PRX	63
77	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
78	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
79	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
80	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	48	Podbean	62
81	How many geese?	Jack Baddams & Roddy Shaw	Science	102	Podbean	48
82	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	386	Podbean	41
83	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
84	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	601	ART19	42
85	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	148	Simplecast	58
86	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	635	Megaphone	58
87	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	589	Spreaker	54
88	Quirks and Quarks	CBC	Science	48	Triton Digital	38
89	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	234	Spreaker	49
90	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	458	Spreaker	59
91	UFO Chronicles Podcast	Nik Hunter	Science	438	Spreaker	54
92	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	43	Unknown	89
93	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	513	BBC	48
94	playing god?	Pushkin Industries	Science	14	Omny Studio	89
95	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	422	Libsyn	38
96	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	743	Megaphone	63
97	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	373	Simplecast	48
98	Paranormal Portal	Paranormal Portal - Ufo's Paranormal Ghosts	Science	491	Spreaker	69
99	Earthfiles Podcast with Linda Moulton Howe	Linda Moulton Howe	Science	100	Podbean	47
100	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	76	Audioboom	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA 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.

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