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 03 Sep 2026

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09/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 483

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:24:19

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. GBH (3 shows)

3. Crash Course Pods, Complexly (1 shows)

4. Fraser Cain (1 shows)

5. cleoabram931 (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (15 shows)

2. Simplecast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Libsyn (11 shows)

5. PRX (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1341	Megaphone	58
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	714	Simplecast	48
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	868	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	533	Simplecast	63
5	Science of Perception Box	Unlikely Collaborators \| Pod People	Science	19	Megaphone	58
6	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1133	Simplecast	62
7	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1565	Simplecast	58
8	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	61	Simplecast	73
9	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1412	Simplecast	63
10	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	194	Libsyn	62
11	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	471	Megaphone	63
12	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	509	Libsyn	48
13	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	514	Spotify for Podcasters	28
14	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	30	ART19	73
15	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	313	Megaphone	53
16	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	340	Simplecast	63
17	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	363	Simplecast	58
18	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	304	Omny Studio	62
19	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	346	Megaphone	69
20	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	729	Libsyn	43
21	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	215	Megaphone	73
22	Natural Causes	Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Science	9	Omny Studio	69
23	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	24	PRX	69
24	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	446	Libsyn	42
25	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	92	Megaphone	83
26	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	335	Acast	49
27	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	367	Transistor	73
28	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	495	Buzzsprout	42
29	NOVA Remix	GBH	Science	9	PRX	84
30	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	118	N/A	N/A
31	Huge If True Podcast	cleoabram931	Science	79	Podbean	42
32	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	855	Omny Studio	48
33	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
34	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	58	Spotify for Podcasters	68
35	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
36	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
37	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	75	PRX	59
38	Cool Worlds Podcast	coolworldslab	Science	35	Podbean	37
39	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
40	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	410	Megaphone	48
41	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	429	Libsyn	52
42	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1121	Audioboom	48
43	When autistic kids grow up	The Transmitter	Science	6	Unknown	48
44	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
45	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	266	Omny Studio	63
46	Beastly History	Wild Beast	Science	7	Acast	74
47	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	42	Unknown	89
48	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	125	Megaphone	58
49	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1108	Libsyn	38
50	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	354	PRX	53
51	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	367	PRX	53
52	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
53	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
54	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
55	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	626	Spreaker	69
56	ScienceSphere	Stephania Mills	Science	74	Libsyn	49
57	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	947	Megaphone	63
58	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1589	Unknown	48
59	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	48	Podbean	62
60	The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu	theliuniverse	Science	80	Podbean	57
61	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	809	Spreaker	54
62	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	601	ART19	42
63	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1972	Megaphone	32
64	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
65	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	642	Libsyn	58
66	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	385	Podbean	41
67	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	77	PRX	79
68	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	140	Omny Studio	42
69	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	157	Buzzsprout	53
70	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
71	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	237	Megaphone	63
72	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	187	Omny Studio	48
73	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
74	NOVA Presents	GBH	Science	112	PRX	79
75	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	365	Megaphone	53
76	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
77	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1093	PRX	63
78	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	458	Spreaker	59
79	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	374	ART19	42
80	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	576	Spreaker	54
81	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	116	Buzzsprout	53
82	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	492	Audioboom	53
83	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
84	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1362	Omny Studio	38
85	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	372	Simplecast	48
86	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	87	ART19	52
87	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	237	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
89	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	7	Simplecast	52
90	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	661	Megaphone	32
91	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	237	Unknown	73
92	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
93	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
94	The Science of Everything Podcast	James Fodor	Science	172	Podbean	31
95	پادکست اتاق تراپی \| The Therapy Room	Ali Shahab	Science	24	Simplecast	58
96	Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't	Tony Santore	Science	295	Spreaker	43
97	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
98	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	855	BBC	28
99	The Grave Talks \| Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural	Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories	Science	500	Audioboom	53
100	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63

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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