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 26 Oct 2026

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10/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 464

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:48:17

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Vic Cundiff (2 shows)

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

5. Matt Knapp (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Simplecast (14 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1358	Megaphone	58
3	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
4	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	538	Simplecast	63
6	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1435	Simplecast	63
7	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
8	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	544	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	Bite Back with Abbey Sharp	The Roost Podcast Network	Science	98	Megaphone	63
10	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	350	Megaphone	69
11	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
12	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1582	Simplecast	58
13	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	34	ART19	73
14	Huge If True Podcast	cleoabram931	Science	87	Podbean	42
15	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
16	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
17	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
18	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	100	Megaphone	83
19	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
20	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
21	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	502	Buzzsprout	42
22	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
23	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	198	Libsyn	62
24	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	343	Simplecast	63
25	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	368	Simplecast	52
26	Science of Perception Box	Unlikely Collaborators \| Pod People	Science	22	Megaphone	58
27	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
28	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	857	Omny Studio	48
29	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
30	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
31	This Week in Virology	Vincent Racaniello	Science & Medicine	103	Libsyn	63
32	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	375	Transistor	73
33	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
34	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	144	Omny Studio	42
35	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	435	Libsyn	52
36	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	242	BBC	38
37	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
38	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
39	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	77	PRX	59
40	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
41	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
42	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
43	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1604	Unknown	48
44	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
45	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
46	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	391	Podbean	41
47	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	415	Megaphone	48
48	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	665	Megaphone	32
49	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	46	Unknown	89
50	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	632	Spreaker	69
51	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	239	Megaphone	63
52	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	357	PRX	53
53	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	86	PRX	79
54	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	65	Unknown	73
55	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
56	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
57	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	28	PRX	69
58	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1988	Megaphone	38
59	Frankly Speaking About Family Medicine	Pri-Med	Science	506	Podbean	27
60	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	304	Acast	43
61	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	169	BBC	38
62	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	241	Unknown	73
63	Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio	Vic Cundiff	Science	565	Spreaker	49
64	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	817	Spreaker	54
65	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
66	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
67	When autistic kids grow up	The Transmitter	Science	6	Unknown	48
68	Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6	A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative	Science	65	Megaphone	53
69	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	376	Simplecast	48
70	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
71	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	636	Spreaker	54
72	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
73	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	445	Megaphone	62
74	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	229	Unknown	54
75	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	382	ART19	42
76	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
77	Robinson's Podcast	Robinson Erhardt	Science	304	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
79	From Our Neurons to Yours	Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler	Science	89	Buzzsprout	72
80	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
81	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	313	Spreaker	84
82	Atomic Adventures	Jess Sharpe	Science	22	Podbean	42
83	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	150	Simplecast	58
84	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	91	ART19	52
85	This Week in Cardiology	Medscape	Science	426	Simplecast	48
86	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	643	Megaphone	58
87	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	675	BBC	38
88	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	349	BBC	38
89	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	418	Libsyn	37
90	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
91	Biotech Hangout	Daphne Zohar, Josh Schimmer, Brad Loncar, Tim Opler and more	Science	169	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	UFO Chronicles Podcast	Nik Hunter	Science	449	Spreaker	54
93	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	247	Spreaker	53
94	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	248	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Regenerative Agriculture Podcast	John Kempf	Science	234	Libsyn	57
96	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	369	Megaphone	53
97	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
98	The Grave Talks \| Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural	Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories	Science	500	Audioboom	53
99	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
100	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	237	Spreaker	49

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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