Science Podcasts

Making Sense with Sam Harris

218 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 19.1K ratings
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the auth...

Science Vs

118 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★ - 7.1K ratings
There are a lot of fads, blogs and strong opinions, but then there’s SCIENCE. Science Vs is the show from Gimlet Media that finds out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between. We do...

Wild Thing

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
Believe in Bigfoot? Think it’s total BS? Host Laura Krantz spent a year in the woods and in the lab, trying to answer that question. What she found might surprise even the staunchest non-believer. ...

911 Calls Podcast with The Operator

93 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
911 Calls Podcast with The Operator is an *award-winning podcast brought to you by The Operator and his trusty junior-assistant, Mr Luna (of Dark Topic and Monstruo fame). Each episode presents a...

This is War

51 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
A raw look at the combat and homecoming experience from American veterans who have been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. “This Is War” chronicles the trials of combat vets both abroad and ...

Moonrise

13 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.3K ratings
“Truer, but also darker.” This is the real origin story behind America’s decision to go to the moon. The story we learn starts with Sputnik, then President Kennedy’s challenge, and ends with triump...

DONE DISAPPEARED

44 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
My name is John David Booter. I am not a podcaster. In fact, I've never made a podcast. I am an award winning documentary filmmaker from Davistown, Pennsylvania who has never made a film. Done Disa...

Extraterrestrial

64 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Why do we think we aren’t alone? Extraterrestrial explores tales of alien encounters. Millions of people claim to have seen alien life, but no one can confirm any of it. Is there a more grounded ex...

Personality Hacker Podcast

394 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Make better decisions based on how your mind works. Personality Hacker teaches you the coding language of your mind and how to use it to create great relationships - a fulfilling career and happine...

How To Do Everything

210 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
We're half advice show, half survival guide. We answer all your questions, from how to find a date, to how to find water in the desert.

GraveYard Tales

118 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
We tell the stories of haunted places, ghost encounters, cryptid encounters, the paranormal, preternatural, and every oddity imaginable. And we have a few laughs while we're at it! Join your hosts ...

Pursuing Health

125 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Julie Foucher-Urcuyo MD, MS is a four-time CrossFit Games athlete, family medicine resident, and member of the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff. Her passion lies in bridging the gap between fitness a...

Physician Assistant Exam Review

96 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 959 ratings
We review core medical knowledge on a continuous basis for the physician assistant preparing for the PANRE.

TEDTalks Health

183 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 929 ratings
From way-new medical breakthroughs to smart daily health habits, doctors and researchers share their discoveries about medicine and well-being onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner...

Chicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

164 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 850 ratings
Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Visit the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastur...

This Week in Virology

158 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 826 ratings
This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.

Reasonable Doubts Podcast

173 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 807 ratings
Reasonable Doubts takes an informative and humorous look at religion from a freethinking perspective; offering news and commentary of interest to skeptics, atheists, agnostics, humanists, courageou...

Inquiring Minds

334 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 765 ratings
Each week Inquiring Minds brings you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the wor...

Strange Matters Podcast

100 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★ - 701 ratings
Discussing the Bizarre, Mysterious, & Unexplained

Undiscovered

26 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 690 ratings
A podcast about the left turns, missteps, and lucky breaks that make science happen.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

942 episodes - Latest episode: about 6 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 678 ratings
Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates and astronauts who are taking us acr...

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

85 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 614 ratings
Brain Science was launched in 2006 by Dr. Ginger Campbell, an experienced emergency physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make...

TED Talks Science and Medicine

290 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 569 ratings
Some of the world's greatest scientists, doctors and medical researchers share their discoveries and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can ...

You're the Expert

89 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 561 ratings
Three comedians try to guess what a leading expert does all day and learn why their research is important. You're the Expert brings academia out of the Ivory Tower and into your iPhone. Hosted by C...

Invention

74 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 512 ratings
From agriculture to the X-ray machine, Stuff to Blow Your Mind hosts Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the inventions we created, and how they created us.

Behavior Bitches

58 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 504 ratings
Ever wonder why guys always assume you’re down to get dirty within 3 seconds of meeting them? Why you keep making the same bad decisions and getting back with your crummy ex? Why you can’t stick to...

Open Minds UFO Radio

300 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 472 ratings
Going beyond the basics… Interviews and discussions with UFO researchers, authors, witnesses, scientists, and others to talk in-depth about issues related to this very real phenomenon. We bring tog...

More or Less: Behind the Stats

354 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 468 ratings
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

Psychology of Eating

100 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 440 ratings
Real people. Real breakthroughs. For more than 3 decades, Marc David has helped millions discover the true causes of their unwanted eating habits like overeating, binge eating, emotional eating and...

Codependency No More Podcast

56 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 434 ratings
In the Codependency No More Podcast, Brian and Jennifer take you along on their journey of codependency recovery. While having conversations with experts, other codependents, and each other, they ...