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 21 Jun 2026

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06/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 521

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:48:02

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

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

5. Stuart Gary (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (16 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (14 shows)

4. Spreaker (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	673	Simplecast	63
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1344	Megaphone	58
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	628	Simplecast	48
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	535	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1135	Simplecast	62
6	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	347	Megaphone	69
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	62	Simplecast	73
8	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1416	Simplecast	63
9	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	195	Libsyn	62
10	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	520	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	340	Simplecast	63
12	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	364	Simplecast	52
13	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1568	Simplecast	58
14	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	729	Libsyn	43
15	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	473	Megaphone	63
16	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	510	Libsyn	48
17	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
18	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	25	PRX	69
19	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	215	Megaphone	73
20	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	497	Buzzsprout	42
21	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	305	Omny Studio	62
22	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	94	Megaphone	83
23	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	313	Megaphone	53
24	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	446	Libsyn	42
25	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1109	Libsyn	38
26	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
27	Songbirding	Rob Porter	Science	266	Transistor	69
28	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	368	Transistor	73
29	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
30	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1593	Unknown	48
31	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	850	Omny Studio	48
32	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
33	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	336	Acast	49
34	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
35	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	429	Libsyn	52
36	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	810	Spreaker	54
37	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
38	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
39	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	662	Megaphone	32
40	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	376	ART19	42
41	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
42	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
43	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	562	Spreaker	49
44	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
45	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	237	Megaphone	63
46	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1146	BBC	28
47	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
48	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	222	Simplecast	58
49	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	368	PRX	53
50	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	238	Unknown	73
51	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	493	Audioboom	53
52	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
53	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	411	Megaphone	48
54	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	140	Omny Studio	42
55	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
56	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	381	Audioboom	63
57	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	227	Unknown	54
58	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
59	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1975	Megaphone	32
60	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	7	Simplecast	52
61	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	88	ART19	52
62	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	158	Buzzsprout	53
63	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1363	Omny Studio	38
64	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	48	Podbean	62
65	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	76	PRX	59
66	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	148	Simplecast	58
67	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	626	Spreaker	69
68	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	386	Podbean	41
69	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	234	Spreaker	49
70	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	513	BBC	48
71	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	743	Megaphone	63
72	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	43	Unknown	89
73	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	601	ART19	42
74	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	415	Libsyn	37
75	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
76	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	40	Acast	94
77	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	422	Libsyn	38
78	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	458	Spreaker	59
79	Your Brain On	Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai	Science	69	Libsyn	68
80	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
81	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	373	Simplecast	48
82	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	643	Libsyn	58
83	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	346	BBC	38
84	Unbiased Science	@unbiasedscipod	Science	235	Simplecast	83
85	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	306	Spreaker	84
86	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1095	PRX	63
87	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	442	Megaphone	62
88	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	239	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	38	Libsyn	53
90	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	118	N/A	N/A
91	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	589	Spreaker	54
92	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
93	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
94	Quirks and Quarks	CBC	Science	48	Triton Digital	38
95	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	672	BBC	38
96	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
97	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	40	Spotify for Podcasters	48
98	Podcast UFO	Producer: Donna Killeen	Science	986	Spreaker	53
99	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
100	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69

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.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in USA.
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