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 14 Jun 2025

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06/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 461

Frequency: every 11 days

Duration: 00:47:45

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. NPR (2 shows)

4. Vic Cundiff (1 shows)

5. Cryptids of the Corn Podcast (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	633	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1362	Megaphone	58
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	677	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	540	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1143	Simplecast	62
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
7	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	516	Libsyn	48
8	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	351	Megaphone	69
9	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	372	Simplecast	52
10	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	483	Megaphone	63
11	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	323	Megaphone	53
12	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1441	Simplecast	63
13	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	82	Audioboom	59
14	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	310	Omny Studio	62
15	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1587	Simplecast	58
16	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	378	Transistor	73
17	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
18	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
19	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	128	Megaphone	58
20	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	451	Libsyn	42
21	Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess	Blaze Podcast Network	Science	239	Megaphone	38
22	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
23	Hard Drugs	Saloni Dattani & Jacob Trefethen	Science	12	Transistor	68
24	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	358	PRX	53
25	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	243	Unknown	73
26	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	859	Omny Studio	48
27	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	417	Megaphone	48
28	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
29	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	504	Buzzsprout	42
30	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
31	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	78	PRX	59
32	Nephilim Death Squad	TopLobsta Productions	Religion & Spirituality	727	Spreaker	74
33	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	36	Simplecast	68
34	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
35	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	229	Unknown	54
36	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	34	PRX	59
37	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
38	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	145	Omny Studio	42
39	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	240	Megaphone	63
40	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
41	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
42	Alive Again	iHeartPodcasts	Science	47	Omny Studio	89
43	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	225	Simplecast	58
44	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	307	Libsyn	52
45	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	634	Spreaker	69
46	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	161	Buzzsprout	53
47	All In The Mind	ABC Australia	Health & Fitness	1047	ABC Australia	43
48	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	384	ART19	42
49	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
50	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	287	Megaphone	38
51	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
52	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
53	Your Brain On	Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai	Science	69	Libsyn	68
54	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	370	Megaphone	53
55	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	666	Megaphone	32
56	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
57	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	495	Audioboom	53
58	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	375	PRX	53
59	Plant People	New York Botanical Garden	Science	32	PRX	74
60	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	605	ART19	42
61	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	170	BBC	38
62	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1113	Libsyn	38
63	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	243	BBC	38
64	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	161	PRX	69
65	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
66	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
67	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
68	Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant	PBS Nature	Science	45	Megaphone	53
69	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
70	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	646	Libsyn	58
71	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
72	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1152	BBC	28
73	Living Planet	DW	Science	500	Unknown	48
74	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	566	Spreaker	49
75	Behavior Bitches	Study Notes ABA, LLC	Science	200	Captivate	38
76	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
77	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	439	Libsyn	52
78	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	121	N/A	N/A
79	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	392	Podbean	41
80	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	419	Libsyn	37
81	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
82	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	819	Spreaker	54
83	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	126	Acast	59
84	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1993	Megaphone	38
85	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1610	Unknown	48
86	ScienceStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	68	Omny Studio	53
87	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	463	Spreaker	59
88	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	72	Megaphone	53
89	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	238	Spreaker	49
90	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	384	Audioboom	63
91	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
92	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	92	ART19	52
93	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
94	The Future of Everything	Stanford Engineering	Science	400	Simplecast	69
95	The Deep End	Science News	Science	8	PRX	59
96	Freakonomics, M.D.	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Science	87	Simplecast	53
97	MCAT Basics (from MedSchoolCoach)	MedSchoolCoach	Science	151	Libsyn	48
98	The Science of Everything Podcast	James Fodor	Science	173	Podbean	31
99	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	150	Simplecast	58
100	Cryptids Of The Corn	Cryptids of the Corn Podcast	Science	597	RedCircle	43

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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