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 17 Oct 2025

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10/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 506

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:26:30

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

4. Holosky Podcast (1 shows)

5. Big Bang Productions Inc. (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. Simplecast (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (11 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	630	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1352	Megaphone	58
3	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	537	Simplecast	63
4	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	675	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1138	Simplecast	62
6	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	349	Megaphone	69
7	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1427	Simplecast	63
8	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	477	Megaphone	63
9	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	513	Libsyn	48
10	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1576	Simplecast	58
11	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
12	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	366	Simplecast	52
13	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	63	Simplecast	73
14	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	307	Omny Studio	62
15	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	216	Megaphone	73
16	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
17	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	500	Buzzsprout	42
18	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	534	Spotify for Podcasters	28
19	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	448	Libsyn	42
20	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	854	Omny Studio	48
21	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	317	Megaphone	53
22	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	372	Transistor	73
23	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
24	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
25	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	629	Spreaker	69
26	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
27	Shot At Love	Kerry Brett	Science	245	Simplecast	58
28	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	342	Simplecast	63
29	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	414	Megaphone	48
30	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
31	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	356	PRX	53
32	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
33	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	119	N/A	N/A
34	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
35	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
36	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	142	Omny Studio	42
37	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
38	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
39	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	241	BBC	38
40	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
41	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	64	Spotify for Podcasters	68
42	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	704	Libsyn	43
43	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1600	Unknown	48
44	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	33	ART19	73
45	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	238	Megaphone	63
46	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
47	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	379	ART19	42
48	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	30	Libsyn	53
49	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
50	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	383	Audioboom	63
51	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	246	Spreaker	53
52	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1982	Megaphone	38
53	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
54	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
55	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	564	Spreaker	49
56	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
57	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	69	Megaphone	53
58	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	664	Megaphone	32
59	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	748	Megaphone	63
60	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
61	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1150	BBC	28
62	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	371	PRX	53
63	The Futurists	Provoke.fm	Science	164	Blubrry	43
64	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
65	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	417	Libsyn	37
66	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
67	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	31	PRX	69
68	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	90	ART19	52
69	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
70	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
71	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
72	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
73	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1367	Omny Studio	38
74	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
75	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
76	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	460	Spreaker	59
77	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	814	Spreaker	54
78	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	603	ART19	42
79	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	159	Buzzsprout	53
80	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
81	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
82	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
83	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	189	Omny Studio	48
84	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	240	Unknown	73
85	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	580	RedCircle	53
86	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
87	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	270	Megaphone	38
88	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1097	PRX	63
89	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	228	Unknown	54
90	The Pulse	WHYY	Science	222	PRX	43
91	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
92	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	149	Simplecast	58
93	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	640	Megaphone	58
94	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	291	Spreaker	59
95	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
96	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	244	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Wild Times: Wildlife Education	Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante	Science	212	Spotify for Podcasters	22
98	Big Brains	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Science	226	Simplecast	63
99	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	857	BBC	28
100	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	79	Audioboom	59

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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