Top Science Podcasts in New Zealand

The latest Apple Podcasts Science chart for New Zealand, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked October 24, 2026.

1

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

2

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

3

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

4

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

5

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

6

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

7

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

8

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

9

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

10

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

11

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

12

BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

13

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

14

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

15

Science Weekly

The Guardian

16

Unexplainable

Vox

17

The World, the Universe and Us

New Scientist

18

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

19

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

20

A Question of Science

The Francis Crick Institute

21

Our Changing World

RNZ

22

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

23

The Seán Chorus

HeadStuff Podcasts

24

The Social Work Stories Podcast

The Social Work Stories Team

25

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

26

Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts

High Ash Farm

27

Life Without

BBC Radio 4

28

Dharma Lab

Dharma Lab

29

과학하고 앉아있네

과학하고 앉아있네

30

EMRA*Cast

Emergency Medicine Residents' Association

31

Dr Giles Yeo Chews the Fat

Orion Publishing Ltd.

32

Unexpected Elements

BBC World Service

33

Open Country

BBC Radio 4

34

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

35

Uncharted with Hannah Fry

BBC Radio 4

36

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

37

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

38

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

39

Dr Karl Podcast

triplej

40

The Human Progress Podcast

HumanProgress.org

41

DOC Sounds of Science Podcast

Department of Conservation

42

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

43

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

44

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

45

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

46

The New Zealand General Practice Podcast

Dr Jo Scott-Jones

47

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

48

Science Friction

ABC Australia

49

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)

Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof

50

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

51

Nature Sounds

ABC

52

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

53

Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

Accidental Gods

54

Nature Conversations: Dr. Adam Forbes Interviews the Experts

Dr Adam Forbes

55

The Knepp Wilding Podcast

Knepp.co.uk

56

So You Want to Be a Marine Biologist

K. G. Muzia

57

Synapsen – ein Wissenschaftspodcast

NDR Info

58

Discovery

BBC World Service

59

IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung

Bayerischer Rundfunk

60

Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism

The Sociological Review Foundation

61

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

62

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

63

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

64

Short Wave

NPR

65

Ancient Aliens

PodcastOne

66

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

67

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

68

The Climate Question

BBC World Service

69

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

70

The Life Scientific

BBC Radio 4

71

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

Sean Carroll

72

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

73

Astrum Space

Astrum

74

Bedtime Astronomy

Synthetic Universe

75

Feed for Thought

Pioneer Brand Products NZ

76

EcoFarm Aotearoa

Ewan Campbell with co-host Stephen Brunton

77

Human Potential Lab

Scott Barry Kaufman

78

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

79

Cut the Crop!

Foundation for Arable Research (NZ)

80

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

81

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

82

What The Duck?!

ABC Australia

83

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

84

Wild Tales | Nature Podcast

National Trust

85

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

86

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

87

Science Quickly

Scientific American

88

天方烨谈

基因频道

89

The Human Risk Podcast

Human Risk

90

In Your Nature

By BirdWatch Ireland

91

Public Health is Dead

Public Health is Dead

92

Research Insights Made Simple

Alexander Polomodov

93

The Extinción Of The Dinosaurs

Nicolás

94

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

95

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

96

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

97

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica and Global Optimism

98

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape

99

NOVA Remix

GBH

100

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Stuart Gary

101

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

102

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

103

Get Birding

Peanut & Crumb

104

Blood Podcast

American Society of Hematology

105

The Science Show

ABC Australia

106

The Science of Everything Podcast

James Fodor

107

Safety Third

Safety Third

108

Das Wissen | SWR

SWR

109

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

110

Soils For Life

Soils For Life

111

The Plodcast

Our Media

112

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

The Naked Scientists

113

Почему мы еще живы

libo/libo

114

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

115

Môre onder die Soeklig

Afrikaans.Radio

116

Change Your Mind with New Scientist

New Scientist

117

Tiny Matters

Multitude

118

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

119

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

120

The Pet Food Science Podcast Show

Wisenetix

121

Naturebang

BBC Radio 4

122

Why Do We Do That?

BBC Radio 4

123

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

124

UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast

Gamut Podcast Network

125

Head Shepherd

Mark Ferguson

126

The Supermassive Podcast

The Royal Astronomical Society

127

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

128

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

129

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

130

Scott Carney Investigates

Scott Carney

131

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

132

Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

133

The Organic Grower Podcast

Organic Growers Alliance

134

The End Of The World with Josh Clark

iHeartPodcasts

135

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

136

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

137

Rewilding In Action

Maureen Howard

138

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

139

Astronomy Cast

Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay

140

Agrarian Futures

Agrarian Futures

141

Rare Earth

BBC Radio 4

142

Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

143

The Market Gardener Podcast

JM Fortier

144

The Science Of…

RNZ

145

PeerView Heart, Lung & Blood CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast

PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education

146

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

John Kempf

147

Blowing Bubbles

Samuel Mann, Mawera Karetai

148

Atomic Adventures

Jess Sharpe

149

Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing

Merraki Media LLC

150

Why This Universe?

Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

151

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Razib Khan

152

Why? with Emma Kennedy

Podmasters

153

Kākāpō Files II

RNZ

154

Untold Radio Network

Untold Radio Network

155

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc.

156

ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5: Bite sized answers to stuff you should know about - in a mini podcast

ELI5 Explain Like I'm Five Podcast

157

Space

BBC World Service

158

Scotland Outdoors

BBC Radio Scotland

159

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

160

Flaming Stars

Brett Horin and Nick Imbesi

161

How To Save The World Podcast

Little Empire Podcasts

162

Tipsy Taxonomy

Tipsy Taxonomy

163

Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro

Snowden Optiro

164

Life, Death, and Taxonomy

Life, Death, and Taxonomy

165

People Helping Nature Podcast

Conservation Amplified

166

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

167

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind

Podimo & TellTale

168

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

169

Farming Today

BBC Radio 4

170

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

171

The Sports MAP Network

The Sports Map Network | Nick Kane

172

The Complete History of Science

Gethin Richards

173

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

174

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

175

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

176

Geology Bites: An Earth and Planetary Science Podcast

Oliver Strimpel

177

Many Minds

Kensy Cooperrider – Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute

178

PeerView Internal Medicine CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast

PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education

179

Les idées larges

ARTE Radio

180

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

181

The Feldman Protocol

Dave Feldman

182

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

183

Living Planet

DW

184

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

185

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

Keep It Light Media

186

Giants Shoulder

Evan McGloughlin

187

Quirks and Quarks

CBC

188

Breaking Down: Collapse

Kory & Kellan

189

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

190

Beastly History

Wild Beast

191

The Amp Hour

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

192

Sleepy Science Documentary

ScatterBrained Professor

193

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

194

Instant Genius

Our Media

195

Normal Curves: Sexy Science, Serious Statistics

Regina Nuzzo and Kristin Sainani

196

The Al & Juddy Show

Agricom

197

Manifold

Steve Hsu

198

Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo

Bigfoot and Beyond LLC

199

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

200

科学史评话最新专辑

科学史评话

201

Bedrock: Earth's Earliest History

Dylan Wilmeth

202

PeerView Family Medicine & General Practice CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast

PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education

203

Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News

bitesz.com

204

ANZCA

ANZCA

205

blurbs

Matt Ross

206

npnHub Podcast - Neuroplasticity in Practice

npn Neuroplasticians

207

The Future Ocean: What Can Carbon Policy Do For the Ocean and Our Fisheries?

Alaska Ocean Acidification Network

208

Tomorrow’s World

BBC Radio

209

Wild Thing

Foxtopus Ink

210

Particles of Thought

GBH

211

Off-Nominal

Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

212

Decouple

Dr. Chris Keefer

213

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

214

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

215

This Week in Microbiology

Vincent Racaniello

216

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss

217

The naturethrive podcast

Jonathan Withey

218

Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind - The Julian Jaynes Society Podcast

Julian Jaynes Society

219

Forschung aktuell

Deutschlandfunk

220

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

221

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

222

Pale Blue Pod

Multitude

223

The Numberphile Podcast

Brady Haran

224

Bigfoot Crossroads

Matt Knapp

225

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

226

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

227

Paranormal Portal

Brent Thomas

228

Space Boffins, from the Naked Scientists

Richard Hollingham, Sue Nelson

229

Sensible Medicine

Sensible Medicine Authors and Editors

230

The Quark Side - Quantum Physics Podcast

Synthetic Universe

231

American Journal of Psychiatry Audio

American Journal of Psychiatry

232

Sleepy Facts

Sleepy Facts

233

Veterinary Surgery Podcast

Jolle Kirpensteijn

234

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

235

Spektrum-Podcast

detektor.fm – Das Podcast-Radio

236

Shirtloads of Science

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

237

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

238

La Terre au carré

France Inter

239

Expanded Perspectives

Expanded Perspectives

240

Outside/In

NHPR

241

Cool Worlds Podcast

coolworldslab

242

De Universiteit van Nederland Podcast

Universiteit van Nederland

243

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

244

The History of Chemistry

Steve Cohen

245

Viced Rhino: The Podcast

Viced Rhino

246

Alpha Male Strategies

AMS

247

The Jim Rutt Show

The Jim Rutt Show

248

Breast Cancer Insights

Breast Oncology Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

249

Axé das Plantas - Cura do Corpo e da Alma

UM DIÁLOGO ENTRE UNIVERSIDADE E COMUNIDADES TRADICIONAIS

250

Everyday Family Medicine

ReachMD

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