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 05 Jun 2025

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06/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 453

Frequency: every 11 days

Duration: 00:48:24

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

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

4. NPR (2 shows)

5. BirdNote (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Spreaker (11 shows)

4. Libsyn (10 shows)

5. PRX (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	633	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1363	Megaphone	58
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	677	Simplecast	63
4	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1143	Simplecast	62
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	540	Simplecast	63
6	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	372	Simplecast	52
7	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	516	Libsyn	48
8	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1588	Simplecast	58
9	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	323	Megaphone	53
10	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1442	Simplecast	63
11	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	484	Megaphone	63
12	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	352	Megaphone	69
13	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	310	Omny Studio	62
14	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
15	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	378	Transistor	73
16	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	451	Libsyn	42
17	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	82	Audioboom	59
18	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	36	Simplecast	68
19	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
20	Your Brain On	Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai	Science	69	Libsyn	68
21	Nephilim Death Squad	TopLobsta Productions	Religion & Spirituality	727	Spreaker	74
22	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	34	PRX	59
23	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	128	Megaphone	58
24	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	240	Megaphone	63
25	Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess	Blaze Podcast Network	Science	239	Megaphone	38
26	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
27	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
28	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	860	Omny Studio	48
29	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	504	Buzzsprout	42
30	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
31	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
32	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
33	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
34	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	121	N/A	N/A
35	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	78	PRX	59
36	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	243	Unknown	73
37	Alive Again	iHeartPodcasts	Science	47	Omny Studio	89
38	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
39	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	288	Megaphone	38
40	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	384	ART19	42
41	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	495	Audioboom	53
42	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	635	Spreaker	69
43	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	145	Omny Studio	42
44	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	417	Megaphone	48
45	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	439	Libsyn	52
46	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1113	Libsyn	38
47	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
48	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	244	BBC	38
49	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
50	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	370	Megaphone	53
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
53	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	463	Spreaker	59
54	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
55	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	161	Buzzsprout	53
56	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
57	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	359	PRX	53
58	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	566	Spreaker	49
59	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	605	ART19	42
60	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	707	Libsyn	43
61	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	819	Spreaker	54
62	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	376	PRX	53
63	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	170	BBC	38
64	Plant People	New York Botanical Garden	Science	32	PRX	74
65	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	225	Simplecast	58
66	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1611	Unknown	48
67	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
68	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
69	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	72	Megaphone	53
70	Drilled: Displaced	Pushkin Industries	Science	270	Omny Studio	69
71	ScienceStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	68	Omny Studio	53
72	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
73	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
74	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
75	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1152	BBC	28
76	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	667	Megaphone	32
77	Need To Know	Bryce Zabel	Science	83	Megaphone	69
78	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	126	Acast	59
79	Oceans: Life Under Water	Crowd Network \| Greenpeace UK	Science	27	Megaphone	69
80	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	305	Acast	43
81	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
82	SciShow Tangents	Complexly	Science	338	Simplecast	73
83	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	646	Libsyn	58
84	The Deep End	Science News	Science	8	PRX	59
85	Bugs Need Heroes	BugsNeedHeroes	Science	113	Podbean	58
86	Back From the Brink, from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom	Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom	Science	35	Transistor	83
87	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
88	Ground Truths	Eric Topol	Science	98	Substack	53
89	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
90	Most Terrifying Places in America	Travel Channel	Science	67	Acast	53
91	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	392	Podbean	41
92	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	446	Megaphone	62
93	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	151	Simplecast	58
94	Podcast UFO	Producer: Donna Killeen	Science	995	Spreaker	53
95	The Future of Everything	Stanford Engineering	Science	400	Simplecast	69
96	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	161	PRX	69
97	Cryptids Of The Corn	Cryptids of the Corn Podcast	Science	597	RedCircle	43
98	Paranormal Portal	Paranormal Portal - Ufo's Paranormal Ghosts	Science	491	Spreaker	69
99	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
100	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	92	ART19	52

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.

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 USA.
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