Top Science Podcasts in New Zealand

The latest Apple Podcasts Science chart for New Zealand, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 4, 2026.

1

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

2

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

3

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

4

Science Weekly

The Guardian

5

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

6

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

7

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

8

BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

9

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

10

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

11

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

12

Our Changing World

RNZ

13

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson

14

Discovery

BBC World Service

15

Unexplainable

Vox

16

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

17

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

18

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

19

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

Sean Carroll

20

Feed for Thought

Pioneer Brand Products NZ

21

Dr Karl Podcast

triplej

22

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

23

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

24

Best Medicine

BBC Radio 4

25

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

26

The Science of Personality Podcast

Hogan Assessments

27

Short Wave

NPR

28

Breaking Down: Collapse

Kory & Kellan

29

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica and Global Optimism

30

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

31

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

32

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

33

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

34

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

35

The World, the Universe and Us

New Scientist

36

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

37

Reskillience

Catie Payne

38

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

39

Astrum Space

Astrum

40

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

41

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

42

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

43

荷你谈心

荷小心

44

Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

45

Cool Worlds Podcast

coolworldslab

46

The Molecular Cell Biology Podcast

Germán Rosas-Acosta, MSc, PhD.

47

The Artificial Human

BBC Radio 4

48

Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing

Merraki Media LLC

49

Emonthebrain

Emily McDonald

50

MissPerceived

Audiocrafty

51

汪诘：科学有故事（主打）

科学有故事

52

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

The Brain Docs

53

The Social Work Stories Podcast

The Social Work Stories Team

54

JournalFeed

Nick Zelt

55

Future Ecologies

Future Ecologies

56

科学史评话最新专辑

科学史评话

57

CancerChoices Pathways to Healing

Pathways to Healing: CancerChoices Conversations

58

Social Work Radio

Social Work Radio

59

That Cancer Conversation

Cancer Research UK

60

Social Work Spotlight

Yasmine Loupis

61

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

62

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

63

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

64

Nature Sounds

ABC

65

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

66

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

67

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

68

Open Country

BBC Radio 4

69

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

70

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

71

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

72

Get Birding

Peanut & Crumb

73

Kākāpō Files II

RNZ

74

Bedtime Astronomy

Synthetic Universe

75

The Science Show

ABC Australia

76

Nature Podcast

Springer Nature Limited

77

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

78

The Supermassive Podcast

The Royal Astronomical Society

79

The myCOW Podcast

myCOW

80

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

81

Unexpected Elements

BBC World Service

82

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

83

DOC Sounds of Science Podcast

Department of Conservation

84

The Seán Chorus

HeadStuff Podcasts

85

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

86

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Stuart Gary

87

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

88

The Science of Everything Podcast

James Fodor

89

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

90

Scotland Outdoors

BBC Radio Scotland

91

Life Without

BBC Radio 4

92

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

93

Beastly History

Wild Beast

94

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

95

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

96

HOLOSKY PODCAST

Holosky Podcast

97

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

98

The Quark Side - Quantum Physics Podcast

Synthetic Universe

99

The Plodcast

Our Media

100

Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News

bitesz.com

101

Paleo Nerds

paleonerds

102

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

103

Science Quickly

Scientific American

104

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

105

Emergency Medicine Board Bombs

EM Board Bombs

106

Wild Tales | Nature Podcast

National Trust

107

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

108

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

109

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

110

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

111

Safety Third

Safety Third

112

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

113

Uncharted with Hannah Fry

BBC Radio 4

114

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

115

Farming Today

BBC Radio 4

116

Why This Universe?

Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

117

Astronomy Cast

Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay

118

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

119

Shirtloads of Science

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

120

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

Planet B Productions

121

All Creatures Podcast

All Creatures Podcast

122

Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

Accidental Gods

123

This Natural Life

BBC Radio 4

124

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

125

The Hamilton Morris Podcast

Hamilton Morris

126

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

127

Particles of Thought

GBH

128

A Question of Science

The Francis Crick Institute

129

Lab to Table

RhythmStudio

130

Real Organic Podcast

Real Organic Project

131

Rewilding In Action

Maureen Howard

132

Blood Bank Guy Videos

Joe Chaffin, MD

133

Brain Space Time Podcast

Akseli Ilmanen

134

Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Robert Sapolsky

135

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

136

Cut the Crop!

Foundation for Arable Research (NZ)

137

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc.

138

Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

139

Head Shepherd

Mark Ferguson

140

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

141

The Climate Question

BBC World Service

142

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

143

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter

144

Geology Bites

Oliver Strimpel

145

UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast

Gamut Podcast Network

146

Drilled: The Propagandist

Pushkin Industries

147

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape

148

NRC Onbehaarde Apen

NRC

149

What The Duck?!

ABC Australia

150

Computer Science Off Course

Felienne Hermans & Hanna Schraffenberger

151

In Defense of Plants Podcast

In Defense of Plants

152

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

153

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

154

Science for the People

Rachelle Saunders, Bethany Brookshire, and Carolyn Wilke

155

The Al & Juddy Show

Agricom

156

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

157

Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen

WELT

158

scigest - Bioeconomy Science Institute podcasts

New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science Limited

159

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

160

Sensible Medicine

Sensible Medicine Authors and Editors

161

Green Cover Podcast

Keith Berns

162

Cincinnati Zoo Tales

cincinnatizoo

163

EcoFarm Aotearoa

Ewan Campbell with co-host Stephen Brunton

164

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

165

Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts

High Ash Farm

166

ExtinctZoo

ExtinctZoo

167

Outside/In

NHPR

168

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

Dr. Kirsten Sanford Science Media

169

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

170

懂心理，調出好關係《Healthy Relationship》

姜尚文心理師，朴世光心理師

171

Ground Truths

Eric Topol

172

The Psychology Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

173

Big Cat Conversations

Rick Minter

174

Change Your Mind with New Scientist

New Scientist

175

The Rumen Room Podcasts

cwestwood

176

Two Bees in a Podcast

UF/IFAS Honey Bee Lab

177

The New Zealand General Practice Podcast

Dr Jo Scott-Jones

178

LangTime Chat

Jessie and David Peterson

179

Terrible Lizards

Iszi Lawrence and David Hone

180

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

181

Debout la Terre

France Inter

182

SUSTAIN

SUSTAIN Podcast from Ngā Ara Whetū

183

Bird Songs with Seán Ronayne

RTÉ lyric fm

184

差分机

JustPod

185

Snakk med Silje

Silje Schevig og Moderne Media

186

Sustainability, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Politics, Activism, Biodiversity, Carbon Footprint, Wildlife, Regenerative

Mia Funk

187

Public Health is Dead

Public Health is Dead

188

Leaning on Fenceposts

Leaning on Fenceposts

189

inControl

Alberto Padoan

190

Politics as Culture

Mark Davis

191

Thames Unfiltered

The Standard

192

Molecules to Ecosystems | An IB Bio Podcast

Maria Grau

193

地球真好玩

日谈公园

194

ICE@Dartmouth Podcast

Franklin Jacoby

195

Gossip Gills

Aquaculture Stewardship Council

196

Zjisti víc

Jakub Straka, David Klouda

197

Science Friction

ABC Australia

198

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

199

The Astrophysics Podcast

Paul Duffell

200

Nocturnal Worlds

Audiocraft

201

Elemental

RNZ

202

Radiowissen

Bayerischer Rundfunk

203

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & LORE Interviews

Mysterious Radio

204

Rare Earth

BBC Radio 4

205

原来是这样 Dscience

原来是这样 Dscience

206

Decouple

Dr. Chris Keefer

207

Dirty Bird Podcast

Dirty Bird

208

JIMD Podcasts

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

209

Instant Genius

Our Media

210

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss

211

I Was Prey

Animal Planet

212

KI verstehen

Deutschlandfunk

213

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

214

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute

215

脳科学, 脳LIFE

TBS RADIO

216

Der KI-Podcast

ARD

217

Main Engine Cut Off

Anthony Colangelo

218

Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

219

Sci Fi / Sci Fact

RNZ

220

Where Inches Matter by Agraforum

Agraforum NZ

221

La Terre au carré

France Inter

222

Slow Radio

BBC Radio 3

223

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

224

Wild Sounds: Kākāpō Files II

RNZ

225

The Parkinson's Podcast

Davis Phinney Foundation

226

The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

Dr. Hubert Hiemstra

227

The Bio Report

Levine Media Group

228

Peter und der Wald

Peter Wohlleben / Wohllebens Waldakademie

229

Blurry Photos

David Flora

230

The 365 Days of Astronomy

365DaysOfAstronomy.org

231

Crazy Town

Post Carbon Institute

232

The Knepp Wilding Podcast

Knepp.co.uk

233

الأعمال الكاملة لـ د. مصطفى محمود

Podcast Record

234

پادکست اتاق تراپی | The Therapy Room

الیاس گرجی

235

Savoir le podcast Vignevin

Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin

236

Hear This Idea

Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti

237

Ingenious: how research transforms our world

UoAMediaTeam

238

Scientias Podcast

Scientias

239

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

240

COACH+ The Art & Science of Positive Psychology Coaching: FULL SERIES 1-4

Dr Suzy Green

241

Brady Heywood Podcast

Sean Brady

242

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

SAPIENS

243

The Escarpment Labs Podcast

Escarpment Labs

244

The Life Scientific

BBC Radio 4

245

Infectious Disease Puscast

Vincent Racaniello

246

サイエントーク

レンとエマ

247

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

248

The Episodic Table of Elements

T. R. Appleton

249

Thoughtforms Life

Michael Levin

250

The Immaculate Deception

Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment

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