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 25 Jun 2025

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06/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 450

Frequency: every 10 days

Duration: 00:49:38

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. NPR (2 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (1 shows)

5. Corinna Bellizzi (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Simplecast (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Libsyn (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
2	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	670	Simplecast	63
3	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	508	Libsyn	48
4	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1335	Megaphone	58
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	532	Simplecast	63
6	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1130	Simplecast	62
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	61	Simplecast	73
8	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1559	Simplecast	58
9	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	345	Megaphone	69
10	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	361	Simplecast	58
11	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1405	Simplecast	63
12	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	310	Megaphone	53
13	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	468	Megaphone	63
14	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	303	Omny Studio	62
15	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	364	Transistor	73
16	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	727	Libsyn	43
17	On Humans	Ilari Mäkelä	Education	109	Spotify for Podcasters	53
18	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	213	Megaphone	73
19	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
20	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	263	Omny Studio	63
21	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	444	Libsyn	42
22	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	493	Buzzsprout	42
23	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	75	Audioboom	59
24	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	123	Megaphone	58
25	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	503	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
27	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
28	Back From the Brink, from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom	Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom	Science	32	Transistor	83
29	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
30	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	139	Omny Studio	48
31	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1106	Libsyn	38
32	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	353	PRX	53
33	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	156	Buzzsprout	63
34	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	846	Omny Studio	48
35	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
36	Nephilim Death Squad	Nephilimdsquad	Comedy	383	Spotify for Podcasters	28
37	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
38	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	281	Libsyn	42
39	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	238	Megaphone	38
40	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	598	ART19	42
41	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
42	Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess	Blaze Podcast Network	Science	239	Megaphone	38
43	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
44	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
45	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	236	Unknown	73
46	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
47	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
48	Kohroner Chronicles	Dr. Roland M. Kohr	Science	20	Buzzsprout	68
49	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
50	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	625	Spreaker	69
51	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	236	Megaphone	63
52	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	51	Simplecast	62
53	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	371	Simplecast	48
54	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	425	Libsyn	52
55	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	409	Megaphone	48
56	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	30	Libsyn	53
57	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	365	PRX	53
58	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	372	ART19	42
59	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1117	Audioboom	48
60	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	75	PRX	59
61	Wild Sounds: Kākāpō Files II	RNZ	Science	67	Acast	62
62	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	384	Podbean	41
63	Inquiry with Kelly Chase	Kelly Chase	Science	66	Megaphone	53
64	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
65	Alive Again	iHeartPodcasts	Science	47	Omny Studio	89
66	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	660	Megaphone	32
67	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	456	Spreaker	59
68	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1141	BBC	28
69	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	176	BBC	43
70	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	296	Acast	43
71	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	806	Spreaker	54
72	Wild Times: Wildlife Education	Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante	Science	478	Spotify for Podcasters	22
73	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
74	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
75	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1966	Megaphone	32
76	ScienceStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	68	Omny Studio	53
77	TED Talks Science and Medicine	TED	Science & Medicine	37	Unknown	28
78	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	122	Acast	59
79	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	108	Megaphone	69
80	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	491	Audioboom	53
81	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
82	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	69
83	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1584	Unknown	48
84	Behavior Bitches	Study Notes ABA, LLC	Science	200	Captivate	38
85	All In The Mind	ABC Australia	Health & Fitness	248	ABC Australia	43
86	Robinson's Podcast	Robinson Erhardt	Science	292	Spotify for Podcasters	52
87	Paranormal Portal	Paranormal Portal - Ufo's Paranormal Ghosts	Science	491	Spreaker	69
88	Completely Arbortrary	Completely Arbortrary	Science	301	ART19	63
89	The Future of Everything	Stanford Engineering	Science	391	Simplecast	69
90	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	379	Audioboom	63
91	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	86	ART19	52
92	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	363	Megaphone	53
93	Big Brains	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Science	226	Simplecast	63
94	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
95	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
96	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	32	Simplecast	68
97	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	147	Simplecast	58
98	MCAT Basics (from MedSchoolCoach)	MedSchoolCoach	Science	151	Libsyn	48
99	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	631	Megaphone	58
100	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	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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