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 24 Mar 2026

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03/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 485

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:46:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

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

3. NHPR (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Lost Women of Science (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Simplecast (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1342	Megaphone	58
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	714	Simplecast	48
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	868	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	534	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1139	Simplecast	62
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	62	Simplecast	73
7	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	48	Podbean	62
8	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	509	Libsyn	48
9	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1414	Simplecast	63
10	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	515	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	731	Libsyn	43
12	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1962	Simplecast	58
13	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	472	Megaphone	63
14	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	40	Acast	94
15	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	313	Megaphone	53
16	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	346	Megaphone	69
17	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	341	Simplecast	63
18	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	496	Buzzsprout	42
19	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	93	Megaphone	83
20	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	305	Omny Studio	62
21	Safe to Drink	NHPR	Science	6	Megaphone	53
22	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	370	Megaphone	73
23	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	31	ART19	73
24	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
25	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	446	Libsyn	42
26	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1108	Libsyn	38
27	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	118	N/A	N/A
28	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
29	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
30	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	368	Transistor	73
31	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
32	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	140	Omny Studio	42
33	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	856	Omny Studio	48
34	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	429	Libsyn	52
35	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	221	Simplecast	58
36	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
37	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
38	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
39	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	492	Audioboom	53
40	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	601	ART19	42
41	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	33	Simplecast	68
42	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
43	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	159	PRX	69
44	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	157	Buzzsprout	53
45	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	2410	Simplecast	59
46	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	375	ART19	42
47	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
48	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1974	Megaphone	32
49	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	458	Spreaker	59
50	StarTalk Podcast	StarTalk Podcast	Science	96	RSS.com	32
51	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	40	Libsyn	53
52	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1591	Unknown	48
53	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
54	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	441	Megaphone	62
55	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
56	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
57	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
58	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	627	Spreaker	69
59	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	661	Megaphone	32
60	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	947	Megaphone	63
61	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	59	Spotify for Podcasters	68
62	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	411	Megaphone	48
63	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
64	The Hamilton Morris Podcast	Hamilton Morris	Science	40	Buzzsprout	37
65	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	304	Unknown	73
66	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	303	ART19	63
67	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	421	Libsyn	38
68	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1122	Audioboom	48
69	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	76	Audioboom	59
70	Bite Back with Abbey Sharp	The Roost Podcast Network	Science	94	Megaphone	63
71	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	368	PRX	53
72	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	414	Libsyn	37
73	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	346	Simplecast	53
74	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	385	Podbean	41
75	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	238	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
77	Freakonomics, M.D.	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Science	87	Simplecast	53
78	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	237	Megaphone	63
79	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
80	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	42	Unknown	89
81	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	87	ART19	52
82	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1363	Omny Studio	38
83	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
84	Beastly History	Wild Beast	Science	7	Acast	74
85	Oceanography \| Marine Science and Ocean Stories	Pine Forest Media \| Environmental Science Podcasts	Science	43	Acast	73
86	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	372	Simplecast	48
87	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	605	Acast	63
88	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
89	Breaking Down: Collapse	Kory & Kellan	Science	362	Acast	69
90	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	581	Spreaker	54
91	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	11	BBC	39
92	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	810	Spreaker	54
93	Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't	Tony Santore	Science	295	Spreaker	43
94	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	561	Spreaker	49
95	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	365	Megaphone	53
96	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	634	Megaphone	58
97	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	643	Libsyn	58
98	Robinson's Podcast	Robinson Erhardt	Science	296	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
100	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	187	Omny Studio	48

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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