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 Jul 2026

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07/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 469

Frequency: every 10 days

Duration: 00:48:35

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

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

4. American Birding Association (1 shows)

5. Medscape (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Libsyn (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1350	Megaphone	58
2	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	870	Simplecast	63
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	630	Simplecast	48
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	537	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1137	Simplecast	62
6	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1425	Simplecast	63
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	63	Simplecast	73
8	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	197	Libsyn	62
9	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	342	Simplecast	63
10	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	366	Simplecast	52
11	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	530	Spotify for Podcasters	28
12	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	27	PRX	69
13	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	317	Megaphone	53
14	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	476	Megaphone	63
15	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1574	Simplecast	58
16	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	33	ART19	73
17	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	730	Libsyn	43
18	Tomorrow's Cure	Mayo Clinic	Science	46	PRX	69
19	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	348	Megaphone	69
20	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	216	Megaphone	73
21	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	337	Acast	49
22	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	307	Omny Studio	62
23	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	513	Libsyn	48
24	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	97	Megaphone	83
25	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	8	Simplecast	52
26	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	500	Buzzsprout	42
27	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1110	Libsyn	38
28	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	448	Libsyn	42
29	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	853	Omny Studio	48
30	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
31	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
32	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	372	Transistor	73
33	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
34	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
35	When autistic kids grow up	The Transmitter	Science	6	Unknown	48
36	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1598	Unknown	48
37	Songbirding	Rob Porter	Science	267	Transistor	69
38	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
39	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	415	Megaphone	48
40	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	50	Podbean	62
41	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
42	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
43	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	238	Megaphone	63
44	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	493	Audioboom	53
45	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	44	Unknown	89
46	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	563	Spreaker	49
47	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
48	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
49	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
50	NOVA Remix	GBH	Science	9	PRX	84
51	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
52	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	159	Buzzsprout	53
53	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	76	PRX	59
54	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	228	Unknown	54
55	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	663	Megaphone	32
56	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	142	Omny Studio	42
57	Science of the Strike	Science of the Strike, LLC	Science	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	149	Simplecast	58
59	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	382	Audioboom	63
60	Your Brain On	Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai	Science	69	Libsyn	68
61	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
62	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1149	BBC	28
63	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	371	PRX	53
64	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	629	Spreaker	69
65	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	30	Libsyn	53
66	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	443	Megaphone	62
67	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	240	Unknown	73
68	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
69	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	416	Libsyn	37
70	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	89	ART19	52
71	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	424	Simplecast	48
72	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1366	Omny Studio	38
73	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	388	Podbean	41
74	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
75	Beastly History	Wild Beast	Science	7	Acast	74
76	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	378	ART19	42
77	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	374	Simplecast	48
78	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	243	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	235	Spreaker	49
80	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	34	Simplecast	68
81	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
82	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	460	Spreaker	59
83	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	747	Megaphone	63
84	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	309	Spreaker	84
85	All In The Mind	ABC Australia	Health & Fitness	1043	ABC Australia	43
86	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	267	Omny Studio	63
87	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
88	The Big Disaster: The Big Burn	LAist Studios	Science	27	Omny Studio	48
89	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	240	BBC	38
90	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
91	The Story Collider	Story Collider, Inc.	Science	729	Megaphone	49
92	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	223	Simplecast	58
93	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
94	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	609	Spreaker	54
95	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
96	Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics	Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne	Science	120	Soundcloud	42
97	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	63	Spotify for Podcasters	68
98	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	514	BBC	48
99	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	644	Libsyn	58
100	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	367	Megaphone	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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