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 09 Sep 2026

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09/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 463

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 31:24:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. GBH (3 shows)

3. Blurry Creatures (1 shows)

4. Dr. Scott Taylor (1 shows)

5. Vox (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (15 shows)

2. Simplecast (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Libsyn (10 shows)

5. Acast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1334	Megaphone	58
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	670	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	531	Simplecast	63
5	Science of Perception Box	Unlikely Collaborators \| Pod People	Science	17	Megaphone	58
6	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1130	Simplecast	62
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	61	Simplecast	73
8	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1403	Simplecast	63
9	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	192	Libsyn	62
10	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1558	Simplecast	58
11	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	501	Spotify for Podcasters	28
12	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	727	Libsyn	43
13	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	338	Simplecast	63
14	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	361	Simplecast	58
15	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	344	Megaphone	69
16	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	467	Megaphone	63
17	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	28	ART19	73
18	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	444	Libsyn	42
19	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	309	Megaphone	53
20	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	88	Megaphone	83
21	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	213	Megaphone	73
22	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	303	Omny Studio	62
23	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
24	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	23	PRX	69
25	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	507	Libsyn	48
26	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	492	Buzzsprout	42
27	NOVA Remix	GBH	Science	9	PRX	84
28	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	333	Acast	49
29	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	845	Omny Studio	48
30	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	363	Transistor	73
31	Natural Causes	Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Science	7	Omny Studio	69
32	Huge If True Podcast	cleoabram931	Science	58	Podbean	42
33	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1106	Libsyn	38
34	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
35	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
36	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	263	Omny Studio	63
37	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	74	PRX	59
38	ScienceSphere	Stephania Mills	Science	73	Podigee	54
39	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	40	Unknown	89
40	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	425	Libsyn	52
41	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	408	Megaphone	48
42	Beastly History	Wild Beast	Science	7	Acast	74
43	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	491	Audioboom	53
44	When autistic kids grow up	The Transmitter	Science	6	Unknown	48
45	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1117	Audioboom	48
46	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
47	632nm	Misha Shalaginov, Michael Dubrovsky, Xinghui Yin	Science	58	Transistor	58
48	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	57	Spotify for Podcasters	68
49	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	123	Megaphone	58
50	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	281	Libsyn	42
51	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	32	Simplecast	68
52	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	69
53	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
54	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
55	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	108	Megaphone	69
56	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
57	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	365	PRX	53
58	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	598	ART19	42
59	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	74	PRX	79
60	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	806	Spreaker	54
61	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	456	Spreaker	59
62	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
63	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	46	Podbean	62
64	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
65	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	371	ART19	42
66	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	384	Podbean	41
67	The VPZD Show	Drs. Vinay Prasad & Zubin Damania	Science	41	Megaphone	69
68	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	139	Omny Studio	48
69	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	625	Spreaker	69
70	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1582	Unknown	48
71	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	156	Buzzsprout	63
72	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	85	ART19	52
73	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	370	Simplecast	48
74	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1092	PRX	63
75	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	363	Megaphone	53
76	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
77	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	547	Spreaker	64
78	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
79	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	38	Acast	94
80	Wild Times: Wildlife Education	Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante	Science	478	Spotify for Podcasters	22
81	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	185	Omny Studio	48
82	Albertans In Space Podcast	Albertans In Space Podcast	Science	21	Acast	63
83	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	853	BBC	28
84	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	232	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	659	Megaphone	32
86	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	733	Megaphone	63
87	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	926	Acast	43
88	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	235	Unknown	73
89	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	236	Megaphone	63
90	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
91	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
92	The Grave Talks \| Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural	Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories	Science	500	Audioboom	53
93	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	75	Audioboom	59
94	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1359	Omny Studio	38
95	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	573	RedCircle	53
96	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
97	NOVA Presents	GBH	Science	110	PRX	79
98	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	419	Libsyn	38
99	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	122	Acast	59
100	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	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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