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 Sep 2025

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09/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 495

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 31:24:56

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. PRX and Greater Good Science Center (1 shows)

5. 8th Kind (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (9 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	1358	Megaphone	58
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
4	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	538	Simplecast	63
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
6	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1582	Simplecast	58
7	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1435	Simplecast	63
8	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
9	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	480	Megaphone	63
10	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	350	Megaphone	69
11	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
12	The Observable Unknown	Dr. Juan Carlos Rey	Science	160	Podbean	48
13	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
14	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
15	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
16	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
17	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
18	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
19	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	368	Simplecast	52
20	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	544	Spotify for Podcasters	28
21	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	375	Transistor	73
22	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	502	Buzzsprout	42
23	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	343	Simplecast	63
24	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	857	Omny Studio	48
25	The Futurists	Provoke.fm	Science	164	Blubrry	43
26	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
27	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
28	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
29	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
30	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
31	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
32	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
33	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	242	BBC	38
34	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	415	Megaphone	48
35	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
36	Altered States	PRX	Science	25	PRX	69
37	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	817	Spreaker	54
38	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
39	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	239	Megaphone	63
40	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1604	Unknown	48
41	The Marginal Revolution Podcast	Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Science	0	Libsyn	57
42	EverydaySpy Podcast	Andrew Bustamante	Business	279	Megaphone	38
43	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
44	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
45	Unbiased Science	@unbiasedscipod	Science	235	Simplecast	83
46	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
47	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	462	Spreaker	59
48	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	229	Unknown	54
49	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	632	Spreaker	69
50	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	144	Omny Studio	42
51	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	382	ART19	42
52	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1988	Megaphone	38
53	Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess	Blaze Podcast Network	Science	239	Megaphone	38
54	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
55	When Science Finds a Way	Wellcome	Science	40	Libsyn	89
56	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
57	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1151	BBC	28
58	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
59	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	435	Libsyn	52
60	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	241	Unknown	73
61	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
62	Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths	Tyler and Charlie	Science	322	Spreaker	59
63	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
64	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1099	PRX	63
65	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	357	PRX	53
66	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	247	Spreaker	53
67	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
68	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
69	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
70	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
71	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	81	Audioboom	59
72	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
73	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	665	Megaphone	32
74	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
75	Ask a Spaceman!	Paul M. Sutter	Science	288	Libsyn	48
76	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	859	BBC	28
77	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
78	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	160	PRX	69
79	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
80	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	294	Spreaker	59
81	Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara	Dr. Tara Swart Bieber	Science	31	Simplecast	68
82	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
83	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	369	Megaphone	53
84	HOLOSKY PODCAST	Holosky Podcast	Science	582	RedCircle	53
85	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	304	Acast	43
86	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
87	Wild Times: Wildlife Education	Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante	Science	213	Spotify for Podcasters	22
88	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
89	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	391	Podbean	41
90	Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters	W.J. Sheehan	Nature	300	Blubrry	42
91	SciShow Tangents	Complexly	Science	338	Simplecast	73
92	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
93	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
94	Patterns Tell Stories \| UFOs & High Strangeness	KLAɄЅ & GΔRRΞTT	Science	82	Podbean	32
95	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	24	Omny Studio	79
96	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	191	Omny Studio	48
97	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	565	Spreaker	49
98	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
99	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1368	Omny Studio	38
100	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	643	Megaphone	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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