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 30 Oct 2026

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10/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 458

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:46:39

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

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

4. The Transmitter (1 shows)

5. Stanford Psychology (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Simplecast (14 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1362	Megaphone	58
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	722	Simplecast	48
3	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1148	Simplecast	62
4	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	873	Simplecast	63
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	539	Simplecast	63
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
7	Bite Back with Abbey Sharp	The Roost Podcast Network	Science	98	Megaphone	63
8	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	351	Megaphone	69
9	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1440	Simplecast	63
10	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	551	Spotify for Podcasters	28
11	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1981	Simplecast	58
12	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	35	ART19	73
13	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	199	Libsyn	62
14	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	102	Megaphone	83
15	Huge If True Podcast	cleoabram931	Science	87	Podbean	42
16	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	504	Buzzsprout	42
17	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	322	Megaphone	53
18	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	310	Omny Studio	62
19	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	735	Libsyn	43
20	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	346	Simplecast	63
21	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	371	Simplecast	52
22	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	516	Libsyn	48
23	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	377	Megaphone	73
24	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	451	Libsyn	42
25	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	121	N/A	N/A
26	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	377	Transistor	73
27	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	495	Audioboom	53
28	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	866	Omny Studio	48
29	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	47	Unknown	89
30	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	437	Libsyn	52
31	Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6	A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative	Science	66	Megaphone	53
32	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
33	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	145	Omny Studio	42
34	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	78	PRX	59
35	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	65	Unknown	73
36	Particles of Thought	GBH	Science	88	PRX	79
37	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
38	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
39	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	417	Megaphone	48
40	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
41	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	28	PRX	69
42	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	1135	Audioboom	48
43	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	251	BBC	38
44	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	634	Spreaker	69
45	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	358	PRX	53
46	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
47	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	128	Megaphone	58
48	Science of Perception Box	Unlikely Collaborators \| Pod People	Science	22	Megaphone	58
49	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
50	3SchemeQueens	3SchemeQueens	Science	56	Buzzsprout	89
51	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	308	Unknown	73
52	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1992	Megaphone	38
53	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	2410	Simplecast	59
54	When autistic kids grow up	The Transmitter	Science	6	Unknown	48
55	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	666	Megaphone	32
56	Black Bird Joy: Conversations in Nature	Black Bird Joy	Science	5	Buzzsprout	68
57	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	36	Simplecast	68
58	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	370	Megaphone	53
59	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1113	Libsyn	38
60	Atomic Adventures	Jess Sharpe	Science	22	Podbean	42
61	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	377	Simplecast	48
62	From Our Neurons to Yours	Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler	Science	90	Buzzsprout	72
63	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
64	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	82	Audioboom	59
65	Origin Stories	The Leakey Foundation	Science	95	Libsyn	68
66	Real Organic Podcast	Real Organic Project	Science	309	Megaphone	63
67	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	9	Simplecast	52
68	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
69	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	240	Megaphone	63
70	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	706	Libsyn	43
71	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	53	Podbean	62
72	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
73	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
74	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	92	ART19	52
75	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	375	PRX	53
76	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	419	Libsyn	37
77	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	392	Podbean	41
78	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	305	Acast	43
79	Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant	PBS Nature	Science	45	Megaphone	53
80	Emergency Medicine Board Bombs	EM Board Bombs	Science	297	Spotify for Podcasters	22
81	Natural Causes	Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Science	14	Omny Studio	69
82	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Libsyn	53
83	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	446	Megaphone	62
84	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	606	ART19	42
85	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	819	Spreaker	54
86	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	316	Spreaker	84
87	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	348	Simplecast	53
88	Stories of Trees	Corazón Latino	Nature	3	N/A	N/A
89	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	383	ART19	42
90	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	161	Buzzsprout	53
91	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	192	Omny Studio	48
92	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	458	Acast	38
93	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1369	Omny Studio	38
94	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
95	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1609	Unknown	48
96	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	650	Spreaker	54
97	Drilled: Displaced	Pushkin Industries	Science	278	Omny Studio	69
98	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	463	Spreaker	59
99	Frankly Speaking About Family Medicine	Pri-Med	Science	506	Podbean	27
100	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	182	BBC	38

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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