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 19 Mar 2026

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03/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 463

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 31:45:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. NHPR (2 shows)

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

5. You Are Not So Smart (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Libsyn (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Acast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1334	Megaphone	58
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	670	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	532	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1130	Simplecast	62
6	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	493	Buzzsprout	42
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	61	Simplecast	73
8	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	467	Megaphone	63
9	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	507	Libsyn	48
10	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1404	Simplecast	63
11	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1559	Simplecast	58
12	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	310	Megaphone	53
13	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	502	Spotify for Podcasters	28
14	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	727	Libsyn	43
15	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	303	Omny Studio	62
16	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
17	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	213	Megaphone	73
18	Safe to Drink	NHPR	Science	6	Megaphone	53
19	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	338	Simplecast	63
20	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	89	Megaphone	83
21	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	344	Megaphone	69
22	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	123	Megaphone	58
23	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	444	Libsyn	42
24	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
25	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	845	Omny Studio	48
26	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
27	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	364	Transistor	73
28	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	139	Omny Studio	48
29	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1106	Libsyn	38
30	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
31	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
32	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	425	Libsyn	52
33	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	32	Simplecast	68
34	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
35	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	281	Libsyn	42
36	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
37	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	625	Spreaker	69
38	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	75	Audioboom	59
39	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	57	Spotify for Podcasters	68
40	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	156	Buzzsprout	63
41	StarTalk Podcast	StarTalk Podcast	Science	96	RSS.com	32
42	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
43	Sex Life Science	Justin Gregory Briggs, Ph.D., LMFT	Science	70	Libsyn	58
44	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	27	Libsyn	53
45	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	699	Libsyn	43
46	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
47	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
48	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	69
49	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
50	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	155	PRX	74
51	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	491	Audioboom	53
52	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	409	Megaphone	48
53	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1583	Unknown	48
54	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1966	Megaphone	32
55	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	598	ART19	42
56	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	122	Acast	59
57	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	806	Spreaker	54
58	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
59	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	641	Libsyn	58
60	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	85	ART19	52
61	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	363	Megaphone	53
62	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
63	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	384	Podbean	41
64	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	365	PRX	53
65	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	559	Spreaker	49
66	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	734	Megaphone	63
67	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	233	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
69	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1092	PRX	63
70	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	345	Simplecast	53
71	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	371	ART19	42
72	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	456	Spreaker	59
73	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	11	BBC	39
74	The After On Podcast	Rob Reid	Science	62	Libsyn	58
75	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
76	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	185	Omny Studio	48
77	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	46	Podbean	62
78	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1117	Audioboom	48
79	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
80	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
81	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	108	Megaphone	69
82	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	51	Simplecast	62
83	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	176	BBC	43
84	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	301	ART19	63
85	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
86	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	40	Unknown	89
87	Ask a Spaceman!	Paul M. Sutter	Science	285	Libsyn	48
88	Oceanography \| Marine Science and Ocean Stories	Pine Forest Media \| Environmental Science Podcasts	Science	43	Acast	73
89	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	439	Megaphone	62
90	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	659	Megaphone	32
91	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	116	Buzzsprout	53
92	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	236	Megaphone	63
93	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	370	Simplecast	48
94	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	236	Unknown	73
95	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1360	Omny Studio	38
96	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	412	Libsyn	37
97	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	263	Omny Studio	63
98	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
99	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
100	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	361	Simplecast	58

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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