Top Science Podcasts in South Africa

The latest Apple Podcasts Science chart for South Africa, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked October 25, 2026.

1

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

2

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

3

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

4

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

6

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

7

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

8

A Question of Science

The Francis Crick Institute

9

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

10

Unexplainable

Vox

11

Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

The Roost Podcast Network

12

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

13

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

14

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

15

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

16

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

17

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

18

The World, the Universe and Us

New Scientist

19

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

20

Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing

Merraki Media LLC

21

BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

22

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

Sean Carroll

23

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

24

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

25

Discovery

BBC World Service

26

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

27

Science Weekly

The Guardian

28

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

29

The Life Scientific

BBC Radio 4

30

Change Your Mind with New Scientist

New Scientist

31

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

32

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

33

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

34

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

35

Wholly & Soully

Emily

36

This Week in Space (Audio)

TWiT

37

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

38

The Science of Everything Podcast

James Fodor

39

עושים היסטוריה עם ערן ניצן Osim Historia

רשת עושים היסטוריה

40

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

41

ScienceStuff

iHeartPodcasts

42

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

43

Mind & Life

Mind & Life Institute

44

Grow the future

Yara Agronomy Team

45

632nm

Misha Shalaginov, Michael Dubrovsky, Xinghui Yin

46

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

47

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

48

Unexpected Elements

BBC World Service

49

Living Planet

DW

50

Short Wave

NPR

51

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

52

Dr. Chapa’s OBGYN Clinical Pearls

Dr. Chapa’s Clinical Pearls

53

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

54

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

55

The Birding Life Podcast Network

The Birding Life Podcast Network

56

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

57

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

58

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica and Global Optimism

59

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape

60

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Tony Santore

61

Clinically Thinking

Clinically Thinking

62

The Club of Rome Podcast

The Club of Rome

63

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

RCPsych

64

SERious EPI

Sue Bevan - Society for Epidemiologic Research

65

Epidemiology Counts from the Society for Epidemiologic Research

Sue Bevan - Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)

66

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss

67

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

68

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

69

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Stuart Gary

70

AfroPop Music 4 D Soul

BlackBoiAmazing

71

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

72

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

73

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

74

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

75

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

76

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

77

Bedtime Astronomy

Synthetic Universe

78

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

79

Wildest Kruger Stories

Karolina Norée

80

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

John Kempf

81

Safety Third

Safety Third

82

Ancient Aliens

PodcastOne

83

Life Without

BBC Radio 4

84

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories

85

What If: Science, Theory, and Possibilities

What If

86

The Episodic Table of Elements

T. R. Appleton

87

Students of Surgery

Martin Brand

88

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

89

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute

90

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

91

Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists

James Tytko

92

Shirtloads of Science

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

93

The Life Sci Fantastic

Eliot Forster

94

The Data Science Education Podcast

Berkeley Data Science

95

This Wild Life Conservation Podcast

Amy Turner

96

Astrum Space

Astrum

97

The 365 Days of Astronomy

365DaysOfAstronomy.org

98

The Wildlife Podcast with Laurel Neme and Jeffrey Barbee

thenewwildlifepodcastwithlaurelandjeff

99

The Joy of x

Steven Strogatz and Quanta Magazine

100

Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

101

Radiowissen

Bayerischer Rundfunk

102

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

103

SASQUATCH THEORY

SASQUATCH THEORY

104

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

105

Relebogile Mabotja hosts The Naked Scientist

Radio 702

106

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

107

The Climate Question

BBC World Service

108

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

109

The Amp Hour

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

110

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

111

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

112

Uncharted with Hannah Fry

BBC Radio 4

113

Instant Genius

Our Media

114

Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio

Vic Cundiff

115

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

116

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

117

Dr Karl Podcast

triplej

118

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

119

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

120

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

121

Clinician's Brief: The Podcast

Clinician's Brief

122

The Science Show

ABC Australia

123

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

124

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

125

SEA: Space Exploration & Astronomy

SEA

126

Get Birding

Peanut & Crumb

127

NRC Onbehaarde Apen

NRC

128

Geschichten aus der Mathematik

detektor.fm – Das Podcast-Radio

129

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind

Podimo & TellTale

130

What Remains

WRAL News | Raleigh, North Carolina

131

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc.

132

ASPEN Podcasts

ASPEN Podcasts

133

De Universiteit van Nederland Podcast

Universiteit van Nederland

134

CHI Podcasts

Cambridge Healthtech Podcasts

135

MULTIPLE HATS: STEM Careers | Reinvention | Entrepreneurship |Thought Leadership

Angelique Greco | Biotech & Health-Tech Expert | STEM Thought Leadership Coach

136

Science Quickly

Scientific American

137

IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung

Bayerischer Rundfunk

138

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

139

Wild Times: Wildlife Education

Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante

140

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

141

The Supermassive Podcast

The Royal Astronomical Society

142

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

143

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

144

African Cities

African Cities Research Consortium

145

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

146

The Acres U.S.A. Podcast

Acres U.S.A.®

147

Best Medicine

BBC Radio 4

148

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

149

Cool Worlds Podcast

coolworldslab

150

Farming Today

BBC Radio 4

151

Podcast UFO

Producer: Donna Killeen

152

Freakonomics, M.D.

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

153

This Week in Pediatric Oncology

Solving Kids' Cancer

154

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

I KNOW DINO, LLC

155

Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6

A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative

156

Curiosity Weekly

Discovery

157

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

The Naked Scientists

158

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

159

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

160

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

161

CREEK DEVIL

william jevning

162

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

163

The Genetics Podcast

Sano Genetics

164

Equine Veterinary Education Podcast

Unknown

165

Amazing Wildlife

Amazing Wildlife

166

Big Biology

Cameron Ghalambor and Marty Martin

167

Medscape InDiscussion: Psoriatic Arthritis

Medscape

168

The Numberphile Podcast

Brady Haran

169

That's Absurd Please Elaborate

Trace Elements Media

170

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

171

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

172

PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast

Chris and Jesse

173

PsychCrunch

The British Psychological Society Research Digest

174

The Habitat

Gimlet

175

ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das?

DIE ZEIT

176

Human Potential Lab

Scott Barry Kaufman

177

Master Brewers Podcast

Master Brewers Association of the Americas (MBAA)

178

New Books in Psychoanalysis

Marshall Poe

179

Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News

bitesz.com

180

Robinson's Podcast

Robinson Erhardt

181

Sleepy Facts

Sleepy Facts

182

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

183

The Fascia Guide

thefasciaguide

184

Falling Asleep with the Universe

Falling Asleep with the Universe

185

Immune

Vincent Racaniello

186

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

187

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

188

The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

Dr. Hubert Hiemstra

189

Survey & Beyond: The Data Collection Podcast

SurveyCTO

190

Science with Sabine

Sabine Hossenfelder

191

Ocean Sounds

OceanSounds.com

192

Asimov Press

Asimov Press

193

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

194

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

Mia Funk

195

Ondertussen in de kosmos

de Volkskrant

196

inControl

Alberto Padoan

197

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

198

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

199

4 The Soil: A Conversation

Eric Bendfeldt

200

The Upper Hand: Chuck & Chris Talk Hand Surgery

Chuck and Chris

201

EADV Podcast

EADV

202

Kohn's Zone

Alfie Kohn

203

VoxTalks Economics

VoxTalks

204

Sпорно

Дарья Поляруш, Лиана Валиева

205

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

206

The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

207

BIOACTIVE

Riley D. Kirk, Ph.D.

208

Science of Perception Box

Unlikely Collaborators | Pod People

209

The Orthobullets Podcast

Orthobullets

210

Bullfish Hole Podcast

Jason Manning

211

The Case for Conservation Podcast

www.case4conservation.com

212

Emonthebrain

Emily McDonald

213

Rain and Thunder Storms Podcast

Natural Podcasts

214

Das Wissen | SWR

SWR

215

Plane Crash Diaries

Desmond Latham

216

Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro

Snowden Optiro

217

Défice de Atenção

Católica Economics Club

218

The Geography of Everything

Ronni Ravid & Zenne Hellinga

219

The Psychosphere

Melanie Challenger

220

Common Ground: A Prairie Podcast

Walsh County Three Rivers Conservation District

221

Herpetological Highlights

Herpetological Highlights

222

Saving Wildlife with Sam

Sam

223

How to Save It

Whitley Fund for Nature

224

Journal of Hand Surgery

ASSH

225

Patterns Tell Stories | UFOs & High Strangeness

KLAɄЅ & GΔRRΞTT

226

Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Robert Sapolsky

227

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

228

Physics World Weekly Podcast

Physics World

229

Today's discussion

Infinity Peptides

230

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

231

What The If?

Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia

232

The Space Show by Dr. David Livingston

Dr. David M. Livingston

233

Sternengeschichten

Florian Freistetter

234

Stories of Trees

Corazón Latino

235

The Genomics Lab

Olivia Grant

236

The Jim Rutt Show

The Jim Rutt Show

237

The Carbon Connection

The Carbon Almanac Network

238

Space Rocket History Archive

Michael Annis

239

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

240

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

241

Quarks Daily

Quarks

242

HOLOSKY PODCAST

Holosky Podcast

243

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

244

پادکست آذرخش مکری - azarakhsh mokri

nimac

245

The Astrophysics Podcast

Paul Duffell

246

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

247

Medscape InDiscussion: CAR T-Cell Therapy

Medscape

248

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

249

Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

Accidental Gods

250

Arthroscopy Podcast

AANA

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