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 11 Dec 2025

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12/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 451

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:23:59

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

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

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. Mercatus Center at George Mason University (1 shows)

5. Paranormal Portal - Ufo's Paranormal Ghosts (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Simplecast (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1352	Megaphone	58
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	630	Simplecast	48
3	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	537	Simplecast	63
4	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1138	Simplecast	62
5	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	675	Simplecast	63
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	63	Simplecast	73
7	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	98	Megaphone	83
8	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1427	Simplecast	63
9	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1576	Simplecast	58
10	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	513	Libsyn	48
11	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	477	Megaphone	63
12	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	317	Megaphone	53
13	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
14	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	349	Megaphone	69
15	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	241	BBC	38
16	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	142	Omny Studio	42
17	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	216	Megaphone	73
18	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	534	Spotify for Podcasters	28
19	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	307	Omny Studio	62
20	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	34	Simplecast	68
21	This Week's AI	This Week in AI	News	373	RSS.com	32
22	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	448	Libsyn	42
23	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	342	Simplecast	63
24	Shot At Love	Kerry Brett	Science	245	Simplecast	58
25	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	83	PRX	79
26	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	372	Transistor	73
27	Operation Night Cat	New Hampshire Public Radio	Science	4	Megaphone	73
28	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	500	Buzzsprout	42
29	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	854	Omny Studio	48
30	Curiosity Theory	Dr. Dakotah Tyler & Justin Shaifer	Science	61	Buzzsprout	68
31	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
32	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
33	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
34	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
35	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
36	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
37	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	356	PRX	53
38	BIOACTIVE	Riley D. Kirk, Ph.D.	Science	97	Megaphone	59
39	The Threshold	Foreign Policy	Science	9	Megaphone	94
40	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	629	Spreaker	69
41	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	414	Megaphone	48
42	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
43	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1600	Unknown	48
44	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
45	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
46	Outrage Overload: Rethinking politics, division, and media	David Beckemeyer	Science	165	Buzzsprout	58
47	The Pulse	WHYY	Science	222	PRX	43
48	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
49	Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6	A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative	Science	63	Megaphone	53
50	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
51	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
52	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
53	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	379	ART19	42
54	The Swiss Connection	SWI swissinfo.ch	Science	97	Buzzsprout	49
55	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	240	Unknown	73
56	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	30	Libsyn	53
57	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	371	PRX	53
58	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	664	Megaphone	32
59	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
60	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	814	Spreaker	54
61	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	748	Megaphone	63
62	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1982	Megaphone	38
63	The Observable Unknown	Dr. Juan Carlos Rey	Science	160	Podbean	48
64	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	45	Unknown	89
65	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	460	Spreaker	59
66	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1097	PRX	63
67	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	50	Podbean	62
68	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
69	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	347	Simplecast	53
70	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	159	Buzzsprout	53
71	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
72	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	603	ART19	42
73	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
74	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
75	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	90	ART19	52
76	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
77	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
78	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	238	Megaphone	63
79	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	79	Audioboom	59
80	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
81	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
82	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
83	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
84	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
85	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	270	Megaphone	38
86	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	228	Unknown	54
87	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
88	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	244	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
90	The Marginal Revolution Podcast	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	0	Libsyn	57
91	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	119	N/A	N/A
92	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	291	Spreaker	59
93	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	417	Libsyn	37
94	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	444	Megaphone	62
95	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	64	Spotify for Podcasters	68
96	Paranormal Portal	Paranormal Portal - Ufo's Paranormal Ghosts	Science	491	Spreaker	69
97	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	189	Omny Studio	48
98	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
99	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	580	RedCircle	53
100	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	564	Spreaker	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.

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