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 10 Sep 2026

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09/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 464

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:47:56

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. GBH (2 shows)

3. Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine (1 shows)

4. American Psychological Association (1 shows)

5. Goalhanger (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. Simplecast (14 shows)

3. Libsyn (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1332	Megaphone	58
2	Science of Perception Box	Unlikely Collaborators \| Pod People	Science	17	Megaphone	58
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	625	Simplecast	48
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	531	Simplecast	63
5	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	670	Simplecast	63
6	StarTalk Radio	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1129	Simplecast	68
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	60	Simplecast	73
8	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	192	Libsyn	62
9	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1401	Simplecast	63
10	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1556	Simplecast	58
11	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	499	Spotify for Podcasters	28
12	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	466	Megaphone	63
13	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	337	Simplecast	63
14	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	360	Simplecast	58
15	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	344	Megaphone	69
16	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	727	Libsyn	43
17	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	28	ART19	73
18	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	302	Omny Studio	62
19	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	308	Megaphone	53
20	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	22	PRX	69
21	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
22	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	88	Megaphone	83
23	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	443	Libsyn	42
24	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	366	Megaphone	73
25	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	123	Megaphone	58
26	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	507	Libsyn	48
27	NOVA Remix	GBH	Science	9	PRX	84
28	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	362	Transistor	73
29	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	333	Acast	49
30	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	492	Buzzsprout	42
31	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	844	Omny Studio	48
32	Huge If True Podcast	cleoabram931	Science	53	Podbean	42
33	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	408	Megaphone	48
34	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
35	Natural Causes	Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Science	6	Omny Studio	69
36	When autistic kids grow up	The Transmitter	Science	6	Unknown	48
37	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	425	Libsyn	52
38	Beastly History	Wild Beast	Science	7	Acast	74
39	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
40	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	32	Simplecast	68
41	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	40	Unknown	89
42	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
43	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	56	Spotify for Podcasters	68
44	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1106	Libsyn	38
45	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	364	PRX	53
46	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	74	PRX	59
47	Weather Geeks	Weather Group Television	Science	441	ART19	68
48	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	262	Omny Studio	63
49	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	69
50	ScienceSphere	Stephania Mills	Science	73	Podigee	54
51	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
52	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
53	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	281	Libsyn	42
54	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	491	Audioboom	53
55	632nm	Misha Shalaginov, Michael Dubrovsky, Xinghui Yin	Science	58	Transistor	58
56	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
57	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
58	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	598	ART19	42
59	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1581	Unknown	48
60	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	236	Megaphone	63
61	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	624	Spreaker	69
62	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	108	Megaphone	69
63	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	73	PRX	79
64	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	45	Podbean	62
65	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
66	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	805	Spreaker	54
67	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
68	6 Ranch Podcast	James Nash	Science	333	Buzzsprout	52
69	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	235	Unknown	73
70	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	699	Libsyn	43
71	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	139	Omny Studio	48
72	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	85	ART19	52
73	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	371	ART19	42
74	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
75	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	732	Megaphone	63
76	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1964	Megaphone	32
77	Albertans In Space Podcast	Albertans In Space Podcast	Science	21	Acast	63
78	Cool Worlds Podcast	coolworldslab	Science	35	Podbean	37
79	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	384	Podbean	41
80	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	926	Acast	43
81	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	455	Spreaker	59
82	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1091	PRX	63
83	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	156	Buzzsprout	63
84	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
85	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	231	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1359	Omny Studio	38
87	The VPZD Show	Drs. Vinay Prasad & Zubin Damania	Science	41	Megaphone	69
88	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	543	Spreaker	64
89	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
90	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
91	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	362	Megaphone	53
92	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	370	Simplecast	48
93	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	38	Acast	94
94	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	659	Megaphone	32
95	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	852	BBC	28
96	Ask a Spaceman!	Paul M. Sutter	Science	285	Libsyn	48
97	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
98	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
99	From Our Neurons to Yours	Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler	Science	86	Buzzsprout	72
100	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	7	Simplecast	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.

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