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 13 Oct 2025

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10/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 483

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:26:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Crash Course Pods, Complexly (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (15 shows)

2. Simplecast (14 shows)

3. Libsyn (14 shows)

4. Spreaker (12 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1354	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	537	Simplecast	63
5	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
6	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1429	Simplecast	63
7	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1139	Simplecast	62
8	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	349	Megaphone	69
9	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
10	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	477	Megaphone	63
11	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1578	Simplecast	58
12	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	63	Simplecast	73
13	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	536	Spotify for Podcasters	28
14	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	318	Megaphone	53
15	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	217	Megaphone	73
16	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	308	Omny Studio	62
17	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
18	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
19	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	367	Simplecast	52
20	The Futurists	Provoke.fm	Science	164	Blubrry	43
21	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	449	Libsyn	42
22	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	855	Omny Studio	48
23	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
24	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
25	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	373	Transistor	73
26	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
27	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
28	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	342	Simplecast	63
29	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
30	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
31	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
32	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1601	Unknown	48
33	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
34	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
35	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
36	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	501	Buzzsprout	42
37	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	630	Spreaker	69
38	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	356	PRX	53
39	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	379	ART19	42
40	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	143	Omny Studio	42
41	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	22	Libsyn	53
42	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
43	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	664	Megaphone	32
44	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	241	BBC	38
45	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
46	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	414	Megaphone	48
47	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
48	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1150	BBC	28
49	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	83	PRX	79
50	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
51	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
52	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	461	Spreaker	59
53	Century Lives	Stanford Center on Longevity	Science	78	Megaphone	59
54	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	815	Spreaker	54
55	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	64	Unknown	73
56	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
57	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	238	Megaphone	63
58	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	159	Buzzsprout	53
59	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	564	Spreaker	49
60	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
61	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
62	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	348	BBC	38
63	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	383	Audioboom	63
64	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
65	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	271	Megaphone	38
66	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	149	Simplecast	58
67	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
68	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
69	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
70	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
71	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	417	Libsyn	37
72	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	32	PRX	69
73	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	246	Spreaker	53
74	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	372	PRX	53
75	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
76	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	704	Libsyn	43
77	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	236	Spreaker	49
78	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
79	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
80	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
81	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	515	BBC	48
82	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
83	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
84	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	311	Spreaker	84
85	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	674	BBC	38
86	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	69	Megaphone	53
87	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	90	ART19	52
88	The Pulse	WHYY	Science	222	PRX	43
89	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1984	Megaphone	38
90	The Marginal Revolution Podcast	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	0	Libsyn	57
91	Origin Stories	The Leakey Foundation	Science	94	Libsyn	68
92	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
93	All In The Mind	ABC Australia	Health & Fitness	1045	ABC Australia	43
94	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	240	Unknown	73
95	Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara	Dr. Tara Swart Bieber	Science	31	Simplecast	68
96	Podcast UFO	Producer: Donna Killeen	Science	991	Spreaker	53
97	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
98	UFO Chronicles Podcast	Nik Hunter	Science	446	Spreaker	54
99	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	603	ART19	42
100	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	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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