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 Sep 2025

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09/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 486

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:26:03

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

4. Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph (1 shows)

5. Mysterious Radio (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. Libsyn (11 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1359	Megaphone	58
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	539	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
6	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1583	Simplecast	58
7	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1437	Simplecast	63
8	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
9	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	351	Megaphone	69
10	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
11	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
12	The Observable Unknown	Dr. Juan Carlos Rey	Science	160	Podbean	48
13	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
14	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	481	Megaphone	63
15	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
16	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
17	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
18	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
19	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	503	Buzzsprout	42
20	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	370	Simplecast	52
21	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	546	Spotify for Podcasters	28
22	The Futurists	Provoke.fm	Science	164	Blubrry	43
23	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	376	Transistor	73
24	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
25	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
26	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	858	Omny Studio	48
27	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
28	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
29	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
30	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	344	Simplecast	63
31	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
32	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
33	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	229	Unknown	54
34	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	243	BBC	38
35	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	817	Spreaker	54
36	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	462	Spreaker	59
37	Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess	Blaze Podcast Network	Science	239	Megaphone	38
38	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1606	Unknown	48
39	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
40	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
41	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	144	Omny Studio	42
42	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
43	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	280	Megaphone	38
44	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	633	Spreaker	69
45	The Marginal Revolution Podcast	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	0	Libsyn	57
46	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	417	Megaphone	48
47	Unbiased Science	@unbiasedscipod	Science	235	Simplecast	83
48	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
49	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
50	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	247	Spreaker	53
51	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1990	Megaphone	38
52	When Science Finds a Way	Wellcome	Science	40	Libsyn	89
53	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
54	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
55	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	81	Audioboom	59
56	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1099	PRX	63
57	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
58	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	382	ART19	42
59	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
60	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
61	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
62	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
63	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
64	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	239	Megaphone	63
65	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	859	BBC	28
66	Wild Times: Wildlife Education	Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante	Science	213	Spotify for Podcasters	22
67	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
68	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	242	Unknown	73
69	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	358	PRX	53
70	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
71	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
72	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
73	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
74	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	666	Megaphone	32
75	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	369	Megaphone	53
76	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	191	Omny Studio	48
77	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	583	RedCircle	53
78	SciShow Tangents	Complexly	Science	338	Simplecast	73
79	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	643	Megaphone	58
80	Need To Know	Bryce Zabel	Science	83	Megaphone	69
81	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
82	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	160	PRX	69
83	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
84	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1151	BBC	28
85	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	391	Podbean	41
86	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
87	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
88	Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara	Dr. Tara Swart Bieber	Science	31	Simplecast	68
89	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	383	Audioboom	63
90	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
91	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
92	Opinionated History of Mathematics	Intellectual Mathematics	Science	40	Blubrry Podcasting	38
93	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
94	Big Picture Science	Big Picture Science	Science	702	Megaphone	53
95	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	565	Spreaker	49
96	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
97	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	295	Spreaker	59
98	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
99	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	91	ART19	52
100	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	150	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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