Top Science Podcasts in Australia

The latest Apple Podcasts Science chart for Australia, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 23, 2026.

1

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

2

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

3

Dr Karl Podcast

triplej

4

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

5

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

6

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

7

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

8

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

9

The Science Show

ABC Australia

10

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

11

Shirtloads of Science

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

12

Science Weekly

The Guardian

13

Unexplainable

Vox

14

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

15

What The Duck?!

ABC Australia

16

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

17

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

18

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

19

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

20

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

21

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Stuart Gary

22

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

23

The World, the Universe and Us

New Scientist

24

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

25

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Sean Carroll

26

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

27

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

28

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

29

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

30

Weekend Birder

Kirsty Costa

31

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

32

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

33

Nature Sounds

ABC

34

Discovery

BBC World Service

35

BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

36

Short Wave

NPR

37

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

38

Emonthebrain

Emily McDonald

39

Science Friction

ABC Australia

40

The Supermassive Podcast

The Royal Astronomical Society

41

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

42

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

43

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

44

PsychTalks

Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

45

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

46

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

47

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

48

Reskillience

Catie Payne

49

Get Birding

Peanut & Crumb

50

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

51

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

52

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

53

Astronomy Cast

Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay

54

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

55

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

56

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

57

Change Your Mind with New Scientist

New Scientist

58

Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing

Merraki Media LLC

59

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

60

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

61

The Knepp Wilding Podcast

Knepp.co.uk

62

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

63

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

John Kempf

64

Astrum Space

Astrum

65

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

66

The Science Show - Separate stories podcast

ABC Australia

67

Why This Universe?

Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

68

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

69

Albertans In Space Podcast

Albertans In Space Podcast

70

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

71

Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

72

Mythfits

Pionaire Podcasting

73

Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News

bitesz.com

74

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

75

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

76

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

77

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

78

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc.

79

Breaking Down: Collapse

Kory & Kellan

80

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

81

The Life Scientific

BBC Radio 4

82

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

83

Win-Win with Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree

84

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

85

Naturebang

BBC Radio 4

86

Soils For Life

Soils For Life

87

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

88

Bedtime Astronomy

Synthetic Universe

89

Every Animal Ever

Dr Cesar Puechmarin, Zach Mander

90

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

91

Unexpected Elements

BBC World Service

92

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica and Global Optimism

93

Head Shepherd

Mark Ferguson

94

The Climate Question

BBC World Service

95

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

96

Particles of Thought

GBH

97

Terrible Lizards

Iszi Lawrence and David Hone

98

Nature Sounds Tasmania

Nature Sounds Tasmania

99

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

100

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

101

Cliffhanger Paranormal and Cryptid Encounters

Ben Clifford

102

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

103

Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo

Bigfoot and Beyond LLC

104

Wild Times: Wildlife Education

Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante

105

Clinically Thinking

Clinically Thinking

106

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

107

Life Without

BBC Radio 4

108

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

109

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

110

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

111

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

112

The Social Work Stories Podcast

The Social Work Stories Team

113

Bird of the Week

Bird of the Week

114

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

115

The Plodcast

Our Media

116

Just Ecology

Karl Just

117

CSIRO presents: Everyday AI

CSIRO

118

632nm

Misha Shalaginov, Michael Dubrovsky, Xinghui Yin

119

Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

Accidental Gods

120

Science Quickly

Scientific American

121

The Weather That Changed Us

ABC Australia

122

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

123

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

124

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

125

Rare Earth

BBC Radio 4

126

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

127

Wild Thing

Foxtopus Ink

128

Scotland Outdoors

BBC Radio Scotland

129

In Defense of Plants Podcast

In Defense of Plants

130

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

131

Off Track

ABC

132

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter

133

IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung

Bayerischer Rundfunk

134

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

135

UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast

Gamut Podcast Network

136

A Question of Science

The Francis Crick Institute

137

Uncharted with Hannah Fry

BBC Radio 4

138

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

139

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

140

Instant Genius

Our Media

141

The 365 Days of Astronomy

365DaysOfAstronomy.org

142

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

143

My Bigfoot Sighting

Vic Cundiff

144

PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast

Chris and Jesse

145

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

146

Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara

Dr. Tara Swart Bieber

147

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

148

That's Absurd Please Elaborate

Trace Elements Media

149

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

150

The Art of Mathematics

Carol Jacoby

151

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

152

The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman

153

Ancient Aliens

PodcastOne

154

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

155

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape

156

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

157

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

158

Origin Stories

The Leakey Foundation

159

Let's Talk SciComm

Unimelb SciComm

160

Outside/In

NHPR

161

Paranormal Portal

Brent Thomas

162

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

163

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

164

PBS Space Time

PBS

165

The Seán Chorus

HeadStuff Podcasts

166

Our Changing World

RNZ

167

Safe to Drink

NHPR

168

Safety Third

Safety Third

169

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories

170

TTS Pulse Podcast

The Transplantation Society

171

Science with Sabine

Sabine Hossenfelder

172

The Episodic Table of Elements

T. R. Appleton

173

Weird & Dead

Amy Atwater and Meaghan Wetherell

174

Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts

High Ash Farm

175

MissPerceived

Audiocrafty

176

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

177

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178

The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

Dr. Hubert Hiemstra

179

Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio

Vic Cundiff

180

Beastly History

Wild Beast

181

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

182

Bridging the Gap: Implementation Science in Action

National Implementation Research Network

183

HOLOSKY PODCAST

Holosky Podcast

184

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

185

Brady Heywood Podcast

Sean Brady

186

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

187

The Feldman Protocol

Dave Feldman

188

The Systemic Way

Sezer and Julie

189

Branch Out

Botanic Gardens of Sydney

190

پادکست آذرخش مکری - azarakhsh mokri

nimac

191

Sum of All Parts

ABC

192

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

193

Ri Science Podcast

The Royal Institution

194

New Books in Psychoanalysis

Marshall Poe

195

playing god?

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

196

Crash Course Pods: The Universe

Crash Course Pods, Complexly

197

Food Forest Podcast

Food Forest Institute

198

Sleek Geeks

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer

199

Matter of Fact: A play on "matter" (physics) and "facts" (news).

Larry White

200

SASQUATCH THEORY

SASQUATCH THEORY

201

A Life More Wild

Canopy & Stars

202

Breaking Math Podcast

Autumn Phaneuf & Noah Giansiracusa

203

Good Fire Podcast

Indigenous Leadership Initiative

204

Podcast UFO

Producer: Donna Killeen

205

Geology Bites

Oliver Strimpel

206

Stories of Trees

Corazón Latino

207

The Future of Everything

Stanford Engineering

208

A Little Bit Of Science

A Little Bit Of Science

209

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

210

GRDC Podcast

Grains Research and Development Corporation

211

跨国串门儿计划

yikai

212

Emergency Medicine Board Bombs

EM Board Bombs

213

Great Moments In Science

ABC

214

Human Origins - The Story of Us

World of Paleoanthropology

215

Quirks and Quarks

CBC

216

Sensible Medicine

Sensible Medicine Authors and Editors

217

Weather Geeks

Weather Group Television

218

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

219

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

New Books Network

220

Teamcast

Mission Critical Team Institute

221

But It Was Aliens

But It Was Aliens

222

Raising Health

Andreessen Horowitz, a16z Bio + Health

223

Lost Women of Science

Lost Women of Science

224

The End Of The World with Josh Clark

iHeartPodcasts

225

Brain Matters (The ISLAND Project)

The ISLAND Project

226

Healing Through Ayurveda

Dr. Shilpi Sharma

227

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

228

That's Just Wild

Fresh Air

229

Today's discussion

Infinity Peptides

230

Manifold

Steve Hsu

231

BJA Education Podcasts

BJA Education

232

Think Deep!

Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI)

233

UAP Files Podcast

UAP Files Podcast

234

Ultramarine: the science of our oceans and waterways

ConnectSci

235

Finding Melbourne's Nature

Finding Melbourne's Nature

236

New Scientist Escape Pod

New Scientist

237

The Medbullets Step 1 Podcast

Medbullets

238

SOIL: Rewilding the Underground

Freya Mulvey

239

The DOC Podcast

DeLuke Orthodontic Coaching, LLC

240

The Skin Flint Podcast

elearningvet

241

The Artificial Human

BBC Radio 4

242

A Grey Matter

Queensland Brain Institute

243

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

Dr. James Cooke

244

The Dissenter

Ricardo Lopes

245

Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters

W.J. Sheehan

246

Quantum Mechanics for the Working Professional

Sean Downes

247

Hillbilly Horror Stories Paranormal Podcast

Jerry Paulley

248

THRIVING MINDS PODCAST

Professor Selena Bartlett, Neuroscientist, Brain Health is Everyone's Business

249

Believe: Paranormal & UFO Podcast

Kade Moir

250

Total Disclosure Podcast

Tyler Roberts

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