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 Oct 2025

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10/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 474

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 31:24:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. TED (2 shows)

4. Science Friday and WNYC Studios (2 shows)

5. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Libsyn (11 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1355	Megaphone	58
2	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	675	Simplecast	63
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	631	Simplecast	48
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	538	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1139	Simplecast	62
6	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
7	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1431	Simplecast	63
8	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	350	Megaphone	69
9	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	479	Megaphone	63
10	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	63	Simplecast	73
11	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1579	Simplecast	58
12	The Futurists	Provoke.fm	Science	164	Blubrry	43
13	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	367	Simplecast	52
14	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
15	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
16	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	319	Megaphone	53
17	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	539	Spotify for Podcasters	28
18	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	308	Omny Studio	62
19	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	217	Megaphone	73
20	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	342	Simplecast	63
21	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
22	The Observable Unknown	Dr. Juan Carlos Rey	Science	160	Podbean	48
23	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	856	Omny Studio	48
24	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	374	Transistor	73
25	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
26	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
27	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
28	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	449	Libsyn	42
29	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
30	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	357	PRX	53
31	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
32	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
33	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
34	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	631	Spreaker	69
35	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
36	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	143	Omny Studio	42
37	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	242	BBC	38
38	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
39	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	274	Megaphone	38
40	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
41	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	415	Megaphone	48
42	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	665	Megaphone	32
43	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1603	Unknown	48
44	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
45	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	502	Buzzsprout	42
46	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	85	PRX	79
47	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	228	Unknown	54
48	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
49	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
50	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	241	Unknown	73
51	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
52	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	32	PRX	69
53	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	435	Libsyn	52
54	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	69	Megaphone	53
55	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	24	Libsyn	53
56	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
57	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	65	Unknown	73
58	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
59	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
60	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1150	BBC	28
61	The Hamilton Morris Podcast	Hamilton Morris	Science	40	Buzzsprout	37
62	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	641	Megaphone	58
63	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1985	Megaphone	38
64	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	461	Spreaker	59
65	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	239	Megaphone	63
66	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	380	ART19	42
67	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
68	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
69	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
70	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1368	Omny Studio	38
71	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
72	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	603	ART19	42
73	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	418	Libsyn	37
74	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	91	ART19	52
75	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
76	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	80	Audioboom	59
77	Big Brains	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Science	226	Simplecast	63
78	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
79	Earthfiles Podcast with Linda Moulton Howe	Linda Moulton Howe	Science	100	Podbean	47
80	Science Diction	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	43	Simplecast	73
81	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
82	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	675	BBC	38
83	Speed & Scale	TED	Science	75	Acast	69
84	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	474	Megaphone	53
85	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
86	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
87	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
88	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
89	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	373	PRX	53
90	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
91	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
92	Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara	Dr. Tara Swart Bieber	Science	31	Simplecast	68
93	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
94	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	246	Spreaker	53
95	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	705	Libsyn	43
96	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	236	Spreaker	49
97	Most Terrifying Places in America	Travel Channel	Science	67	Acast	53
98	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	564	Spreaker	49
99	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	125	Acast	59
100	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49

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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