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 04 Jun 2026

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06/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 481

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:26:32

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

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

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. Crash Course Pods, Complexly (1 shows)

5. Blurry Creatures (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. Simplecast (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Acast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1359	Megaphone	58
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	539	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
6	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1437	Simplecast	63
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
8	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	28	PRX	69
9	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1583	Simplecast	58
10	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	546	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
12	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	481	Megaphone	63
13	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
14	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
15	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
16	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	351	Megaphone	69
17	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
18	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
19	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	42	Acast	94
20	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	199	Libsyn	62
21	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
22	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
23	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	101	Megaphone	83
24	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	370	Simplecast	52
25	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	344	Simplecast	63
26	Songbirding	Rob Porter	Science	268	Transistor	69
27	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	419	Libsyn	37
28	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	376	Transistor	73
29	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	52	Podbean	62
30	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
31	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	503	Buzzsprout	42
32	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
33	The Field Guides	The Field Guides	Science & Medicine	104	Squarespace	49
34	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	858	Omny Studio	48
35	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
36	How many geese?	Jack Baddams & Roddy Shaw	Science	102	Podbean	48
37	Life List: A Birding Podcast	George Armistead, Alvaro Jaramillo, and Mollee Brown	Science	147	Buzzsprout	62
38	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
39	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
40	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	339	Acast	49
41	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
42	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	239	Megaphone	63
43	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
44	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	417	Megaphone	48
45	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	437	Libsyn	52
46	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
47	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
48	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1990	Megaphone	38
49	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	817	Spreaker	54
50	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	358	PRX	53
51	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	382	ART19	42
52	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
53	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1606	Unknown	48
54	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	41	Spotify for Podcasters	48
55	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
56	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
57	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	144	Omny Studio	42
58	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1151	BBC	28
59	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	8	Simplecast	52
60	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
61	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1099	PRX	63
62	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	462	Spreaker	59
63	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
64	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
65	Curiosity Theory	Dr. Dakotah Tyler & Justin Shaifer	Science	61	Buzzsprout	68
66	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
67	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	47	Unknown	89
68	Psychology of the Strange	Tara Perreault	Science	52	Acast	73
69	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	633	Spreaker	69
70	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
71	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
72	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	391	Podbean	41
73	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	243	BBC	38
74	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
75	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
76	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
77	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	91	ART19	52
78	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	191	Omny Studio	48
79	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	666	Megaphone	32
80	Wild Times: Wildlife Education	Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante	Science	213	Spotify for Podcasters	22
81	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	369	Megaphone	53
82	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	314	Spreaker	84
83	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	81	Audioboom	59
84	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
85	Cryptids Of The Corn	Cryptids of the Corn Podcast	Science	594	RedCircle	43
86	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	249	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Your Brain On	Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai	Science	69	Libsyn	68
88	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
89	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
90	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
91	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	71	Megaphone	53
92	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
93	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
94	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	377	Simplecast	48
95	Astronomy Cast	Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay	Science	572	Libsyn	68
96	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	35	ART19	73
97	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	445	Megaphone	62
98	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	583	RedCircle	53
99	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
100	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58

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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