Podcasts · Science · Apple chart November 9, 2026
Top 100 Science podcasts
The top 100 science podcasts on the Apple Podcasts US chart for November 9, 2026, with episode counts and host contacts in Media List.
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#1
RadiolabWNYC Studios
671episodes
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#2
Hidden BrainHidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
626episodes
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#3
Ologies with Alie WardAlie Ward
532episodes
#1Radiolab on the Science chart
409episodes, typical show here
31shows here with a host contact you can unlock
Key facts
- Radiolab is #1 on the Apple Podcasts US Science chart for November 9, 2026.
- The top five positions shown here are Radiolab (#1), Hidden Brain (#2), Ologies with Alie Ward (#3), Boring History for Sleep (#4), Sasquatch Chronicles (#5).
- The typical show here has about 409 episodes (Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026).
- 31 of the 100 shows on this page have a host contact in Media List.
- Chart checked .
The chart
Top 100 science podcasts, by Apple chart position
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| # | Show | Episodes | Apple | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Top 25 Science podcasts | ||||
| 1 | Radiolab WNYC Studios |
671 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 2 | Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam |
626 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 3 | Ologies with Alie Ward Alie Ward |
532 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 4 |  Boring History for Sleep Velvet |
504 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 5 |  Sasquatch Chronicles Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters |
732 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 6 |  Science Friday Science Friday and WNYC Studios |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 7 |  StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 8 |  Science Vs Spotify Studios |
345 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 9 | The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe Dr. Steven Novella |
915 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 10 |  Something You Should Know Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 11 |  Short Wave NPR |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 12 |  This Podcast Will Kill You Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts |
303 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 13 |  Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media |
213 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 14 |  The Rest Is Science Goalhanger |
89 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 15 |  Unexplainable Vox |
310 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 16 |  WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp |
124 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 17 |  Making Sense with Sam Harris Sam Harris |
510 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 18 |  Stuff To Blow Your Mind iHeartPodcasts |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 19 |  This Week in Virology Vincent Racaniello |
100 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 20 |  The Best of Coast to Coast AM iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 21 |  DarkHorse Podcast Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying |
493 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 22 |  Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas Sean Carroll |
444 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 23 |  Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe iHeartPodcasts |
845 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 24 |  The VPZD Show Drs. Vinay Prasad & Zubin Damania |
42 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 25 |  That UFO Podcast That UFO Podcast |
500 | Listen | Similar shows |
Top 50, positions 26 to 50 | ||||
| 26 |  Bigfoot Society Jeremiah Byron |
1,000+ | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 27 |  The Michael Shermer Show Michael Shermer |
641 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 28 |  BirdNote Daily BirdNote |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 29 | Universe Today Podcast Fraser Cain |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 30 |  Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse Agoric Media |
14 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 31 |  The Common Descent Podcast Common Descent |
384 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 32 |  Expanded Perspectives Expanded Perspectives |
491 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 33 |  Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews Mysterious Radio |
22 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 34 |  The Infinite Monkey Cage BBC Radio 4 |
239 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 35 |  The Wild with Chris Morgan KUOW News and Information |
139 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 36 |  Science Magazine Podcast Science Magazine |
660 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 37 |  Outside/In NHPR |
409 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 38 | Science Quickly Scientific American |
– | Listen | Similar shows |
| 39 |  Paranormal Mysteries Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast |
625 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 40 |  Mysterious Universe 8th Kind |
20 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 41 |  Bite Back with Abbey Sharp The Roost Podcast Network |
93 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 42 |  Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz Dr. Mindy Pelz |
364 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 43 |  Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio Vic Cundiff |
560 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 44 |  Curious Cases BBC Radio 4 |
165 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 45 |  Ancient Aliens PodcastOne |
86 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 46 |  Osterholm Update CIDRAP |
227 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 47 |  The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week Popular Science |
236 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 48 |  Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science The Planetary Society |
1,000+ | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 49 |  Somewhere in the Skies SpectreVision Radio |
737 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 50 |  GraveYard Tales Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph |
380 | Listen | Similar shows |
Positions 51 to 100 | ||||
| 51 |  The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens Nate Hagens |
425 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 52 |  TheThinkingAtheist The Thinking Atheist |
807 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 53 |  In Defense of Plants Podcast In Defense of Plants |
598 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 54 |  Let's Learn Everything! Maximum Fun |
147 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 55 |  UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast Gamut Podcast Network |
373 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 56 |  Just the Zoo of Us Ellen & Christian Weatherford |
371 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 57 |  Bedtime Astronomy Synthetic Universe |
556 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 58 |  BrainStuff iHeartPodcasts |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 59 |  This Week in Cardiology Medscape |
421 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 60 |  My Bigfoot Sighting Vic Cundiff |
242 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 61 |  The Micah Hanks Program Micah Hanks |
700 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 62 |  Pursuit of the Paranormal Ash and Greg |
316 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 63 |  Real Ghost Stories Online Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio |
500 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 64 |  The Quanta Podcast Quanta Magazine |
365 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 65 |  Skeptoid Brian Dunning |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 66 |  Are We Doomed? NPR Network |
23 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 67 |  Choiceology with Katy Milkman Charles Schwab |
117 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 68 |  Unexpected Elements BBC World Service |
343 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 69 |  UFO Chronicles Podcast Nik Hunter |
505 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 70 |  Astrum Space Astrum |
173 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 71 |  Houston We Have a Podcast National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
440 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 72 |  The Science of Happiness PRX and Greater Good Science Center |
353 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 73 |  Okay, But... Birds Dr. Scott Taylor |
41 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 74 |  The Naked Scientists Podcast The Naked Scientists |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 75 |  The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories |
500 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 76 |  Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters W.J. Sheehan |
300 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 77 |  Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast David Puder, M.D. |
282 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 78 |  Robinson's Podcast Robinson Erhardt |
292 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 79 |  The Joy of Why Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine |
75 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 80 |  The American Birding Podcast American Birding Association |
413 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 81 |  BBC Inside Science BBC Radio 4 |
670 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 82 | Quirks and Quarks CBC |
46 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 83 |  SASQUATCH THEORY SASQUATCH THEORY |
301 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 84 |  Babbage from The Economist The Economist |
11 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 85 |  CrowdScience BBC World Service |
511 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 86 |  Bigfoot Crossroads Matt Knapp |
232 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 87 |  Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo Bigfoot and Beyond LLC |
456 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 88 |  The Hamilton Morris Podcast Hamilton Morris |
40 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 89 |  This Week in Virology Vincent Racaniello |
1,000+ | Listen | Similar shows |
| 90 |  Earthfiles Podcast with Linda Moulton Howe Linda Moulton Howe |
100 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 91 |  The Science of Birds Ivan Phillipsen |
156 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 92 |  The Pulse WHYY |
218 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 93 |  Mind & Life Mind & Life Institute |
95 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 94 |  Speaking of Psychology American Psychological Association |
446 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 95 |  Wild Times: Wildlife Education Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante |
157 | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 96 |  SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Stuart Gary |
1,000+ | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 97 |  Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Isaac Arthur |
1,000+ | Listen | Unlock contact |
| 98 |  Scotland Outdoors BBC Radio Scotland |
803 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 99 |  Health Wanted WABE |
114 | Listen | Similar shows |
| 100 |  Regenerative Agriculture Podcast John Kempf |
229 | Listen | Similar shows |
How this list is made
Chart positions from Apple Podcasts (US), November 9, 2026. Positions follow Apple's chart, and a show removed on request leaves a gap. We check the charts every week. Episode counts come from Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026; Podcast Index caps counts at 1,000, so 1,000+ means at least that many. Host contacts unlock in Media List where we hold one for the show.
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What are the top science podcasts right now?
On the Apple Podcasts US Science chart for November 9, 2026, the top five positions shown here are Radiolab (#1), Hidden Brain (#2), Ologies with Alie Ward (#3), Boring History for Sleep (#4), Sasquatch Chronicles (#5).
How is this list ranked?
By chart position on the Apple Podcasts US Science chart on November 9, 2026. Positions follow Apple's chart, and a show removed on request leaves a gap. Media List adds episode counts and host contacts.
How often is this list updated?
We check the Apple Podcasts charts every week. The date above is the date of the chart shown on this page.
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31 of the shows on this list have a host contact in Media List. Plans start at $99 a month.
How many episodes do these podcasts have?
The typical show on this list has about 409 episodes, based on Media List's podcast data as of November 8, 2026.
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