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 Oct 2025

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10/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 459

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 31:26:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Leakey Foundation (1 shows)

4. NPR (1 shows)

5. Science Friday and WNYC Studios (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1347	Megaphone	58
2	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	673	Simplecast	63
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	629	Simplecast	48
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	536	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1136	Simplecast	62
6	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	729	Libsyn	43
7	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1420	Simplecast	63
8	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	62	Simplecast	73
9	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1571	Simplecast	58
10	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	348	Megaphone	69
11	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	475	Megaphone	63
12	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	315	Megaphone	53
13	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	511	Libsyn	48
14	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	524	Spotify for Podcasters	28
15	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	215	Megaphone	73
16	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	306	Omny Studio	62
17	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	498	Buzzsprout	42
18	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	447	Libsyn	42
19	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	365	Simplecast	52
20	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	370	Transistor	73
21	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1109	Libsyn	38
22	Shot At Love	Kerry Brett	Science	245	Simplecast	58
23	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	119	N/A	N/A
24	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
25	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	852	Omny Studio	48
26	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
27	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
28	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
29	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	628	Spreaker	69
30	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	341	Simplecast	63
31	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
32	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	493	Audioboom	53
33	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
34	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
35	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
36	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
37	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
38	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
39	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	459	Spreaker	59
40	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	78	Audioboom	59
41	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	141	Omny Studio	42
42	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	166	BBC	38
43	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
44	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1595	Unknown	48
45	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	30	Libsyn	53
46	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1977	Megaphone	32
47	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	601	ART19	42
48	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	377	ART19	42
49	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
50	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	643	Libsyn	58
51	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	663	Megaphone	32
52	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	412	Megaphone	48
53	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
54	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	562	Spreaker	49
55	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	381	Audioboom	63
56	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	222	Simplecast	58
57	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
58	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
59	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	158	Buzzsprout	53
60	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1147	BBC	28
61	Need To Know	Bryce Zabel	Science	83	Megaphone	69
62	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	431	Libsyn	52
63	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	261	Megaphone	38
64	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
65	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	238	Megaphone	63
66	CREOGs Over Coffee	CREOGs Over Coffee	Science	343	Podbean	48
67	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	124	Acast	59
68	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	811	Spreaker	54
69	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
70	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
71	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	228	Unknown	54
72	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	239	Unknown	73
73	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	188	Omny Studio	48
74	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
75	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	386	Podbean	41
76	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
77	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	63	Spotify for Podcasters	68
78	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	68	Megaphone	53
79	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	423	Simplecast	48
80	Shocked	UChicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth, Michael Greenstone, Amy Harder	Science	14	Simplecast	69
81	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	30	PRX	69
82	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
83	Fortean Winds	RamX	Science	40	Buzzsprout	68
84	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	416	Libsyn	37
85	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	234	Spreaker	49
86	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	149	Simplecast	58
87	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	116	Buzzsprout	53
88	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	267	Omny Studio	63
89	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	287	Spreaker	59
90	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	744	Megaphone	63
91	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
92	Big Picture Science	Big Picture Science	Science	696	Megaphone	53
93	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
94	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	637	Megaphone	58
95	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	32	ART19	73
96	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	578	RedCircle	53
97	Curiosity Theory	Dr. Dakotah Tyler & Justin Shaifer	Science	61	Buzzsprout	68
98	Origin Stories	The Leakey Foundation	Science	94	Libsyn	68
99	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
100	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42

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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