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 Sep 2025

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09/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 458

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:47:35

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

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

3. NPR (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. TED (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Simplecast (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	633	Simplecast	48
2	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	540	Simplecast	63
3	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1363	Megaphone	58
4	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	678	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1143	Simplecast	62
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
7	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1588	Simplecast	58
8	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	484	Megaphone	63
9	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1443	Simplecast	63
10	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	352	Megaphone	69
11	The Observable Unknown	Dr. Juan Carlos Rey	Science	160	Podbean	48
12	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	323	Megaphone	53
13	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	310	Omny Studio	62
14	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
15	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	128	Megaphone	58
16	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	516	Libsyn	48
17	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
18	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	36	Simplecast	68
19	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
20	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	378	Transistor	73
21	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	244	BBC	38
22	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	554	Spotify for Podcasters	28
23	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	860	Omny Studio	48
24	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	145	Omny Studio	42
25	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	504	Buzzsprout	42
26	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	451	Libsyn	42
27	Flash Forward	Rose Eveleth	Science	186	N/A	N/A
28	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
29	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	418	Megaphone	48
30	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
31	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	372	Simplecast	52
32	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	34	PRX	59
33	Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara	Dr. Tara Swart Bieber	Science	31	Simplecast	68
34	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	605	ART19	42
35	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	121	N/A	N/A
36	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
37	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	289	Megaphone	38
38	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	243	Unknown	73
39	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
40	Plant People	New York Botanical Garden	Science	32	PRX	74
41	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	240	Megaphone	63
42	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	171	BBC	38
43	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	347	Simplecast	63
44	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	359	PRX	53
45	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	376	PRX	53
46	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
47	My Take On It with Your Angelic Karma®	Your Angelic Karma	Science	718	Spreaker	43
48	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	225	Simplecast	58
49	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
50	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	635	Spreaker	69
51	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
52	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
53	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
54	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	66	Unknown	73
55	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	82	Audioboom	59
56	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1113	Libsyn	38
57	ScienceStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	68	Omny Studio	53
58	Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess	Blaze Podcast Network	Science	239	Megaphone	38
59	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
60	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1612	Unknown	48
61	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	230	Unknown	54
62	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
63	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	161	PRX	69
64	Where Is My Mind?	Mark Gober and Blue Duck Media	Science	9	WideOrbit	58
65	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
66	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
67	Speed & Scale	TED	Science	75	Acast	69
68	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	78	PRX	59
69	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
70	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1995	Megaphone	38
71	How Wild	NPR	Science	16	PRX	63
72	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	161	Buzzsprout	53
73	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	392	Podbean	41
74	Native Plants, Healthy Planet	Pinelands Nursery, Bleav	Science	341	Simplecast	52
75	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
76	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	439	Libsyn	52
77	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1371	Omny Studio	38
78	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	495	Audioboom	53
79	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	309	ART19	63
80	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	126	Acast	59
81	Origin Stories	The Leakey Foundation	Science	95	Libsyn	68
82	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
83	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	646	Libsyn	58
84	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
85	The Feldman Protocol	Dave Feldman	Science	2	Spotify for Podcasters	43
86	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
87	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	385	ART19	42
88	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	667	Megaphone	32
89	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	447	Megaphone	62
90	MinuteEarth	Minute Earth	Science	449	Megaphone	59
91	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	463	Spreaker	59
92	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
93	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
94	Drilled: Displaced	Pushkin Industries	Science	271	Omny Studio	69
95	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
96	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	370	Megaphone	53
97	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	567	Spreaker	49
98	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	253	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	The Social Work Podcast	Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW	Science	157	Unknown	43
100	Ground Truths	Eric Topol	Science	98	Substack	53

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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