Top Science Podcasts in South Africa

The latest Apple Podcasts Science chart for South Africa, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 21, 2026.

1

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

2

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

3

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

4

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

5

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

6

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

7

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

8

Unexplainable

Vox

9

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

10

Science Weekly

The Guardian

11

Change Your Mind with New Scientist

New Scientist

12

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

13

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

14

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

15

Emonthebrain

Emily McDonald

16

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

17

The World, the Universe and Us

New Scientist

18

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

19

Discovery

BBC World Service

20

Students of Surgery

Martin Brand

21

BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

22

Between the Lines

Institute of Development Studies

23

The Peter Byck Show

Peter Byck

24

Relebogile Mabotja hosts The Naked Scientist

Radio 702

25

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

26

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

27

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

28

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

29

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

Sean Carroll

30

Unexpected Elements

BBC World Service

31

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

32

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

33

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

34

The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman

35

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

36

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

37

The Life Scientific

BBC Radio 4

38

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

39

From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

40

Wissen Weekly

Spotify Studios

41

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

The Naked Scientists

42

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

43

PRS Journal Club

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

44

Mythfits

Pionaire Podcasting

45

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

46

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

47

The Brain Podcast

Brain

48

The Language Neuroscience Podcast

Stephen M. Wilson

49

Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists

James Tytko

50

Demystifying Genetics

Matt Burgess

51

Seedpod

Lee Rael

52

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

53

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

54

Dr Giles Yeo Chews the Fat

Orion Publishing Ltd.

55

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

56

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

57

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

58

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

59

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

60

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

61

Lost Women of Science

Lost Women of Science

62

Dr Karl Podcast

triplej

63

Naturebang

BBC Radio 4

64

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

65

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

66

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape

67

Uncharted with Hannah Fry

BBC Radio 4

68

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

69

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

70

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

71

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

72

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

73

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

74

Short Wave

NPR

75

Nature Documentary For Sleep

Nature Documentary For Sleep

76

Outside/In

NHPR

77

New Scientist Escape Pod

New Scientist

78

New Scientist Colab Podcasts

DMG Media

79

Raising Health

Andreessen Horowitz, a16z Bio + Health

80

Waterlands

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

81

Astrum Space

Astrum

82

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

83

inControl

Alberto Padoan

84

Particles of Thought

GBH

85

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

86

Mathematics Simplified

Anjali Sharma

87

WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

88

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

89

HOLOSKY PODCAST

Holosky Podcast

90

Wildest Kruger Stories

Karolina Norée

91

Learn Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine and any kinds of Alternative Medicine

Shiho Cierra Fujimaru

92

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc.

93

The Astrophysics Podcast

Paul Duffell

94

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

95

Das Wissen | SWR

SWR

96

The Amp Hour

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

97

DNA Today: A Genetics Podcast

Kira Dineen, Gene Pool Media

98

ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das?

DIE ZEIT

99

The Cosmic Savannah

The Cosmic Savannah

100

The Beverage Report Podcast

LSE Department of Economics

101

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

102

Farming Today

BBC Radio 4

103

Science Quickly

Scientific American

104

Crash Course Pods: The Universe

Crash Course Pods, Complexly

105

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

106

Astrum Podcast

Dennis Ariel | Astrum Brasil

107

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

108

Songs 4 FRCR: Radiology FRCR 2A Revision

FRCR Revision

109

Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing

Merraki Media LLC

110

CREOGs Over Coffee

CREOGs Over Coffee

111

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

112

Earth to Humans

Earth to Humans Podcast

113

Get Birding

Peanut & Crumb

114

SciComm Conversations

The European Competence Centre for Science Communication

115

Superwomen in Science

Superwomen in Science

116

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

117

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

118

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

119

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

John Kempf

120

5 Live Science Podcast

BBC Radio 5 Live

121

Terrible Lizards

Iszi Lawrence and David Hone

122

The Birding Life Podcast Network

The Birding Life Podcast Network

123

This Week in Space (Audio)

TWiT

124

Chasing Consciousness

Freddy Drabble

125

The Soil Health Hub Podcast

Soil Health Hub

126

The Genomics Lab

Olivia Grant

127

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

128

La Science CQFD

France Culture

129

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

130

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

131

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Stuart Gary

132

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133

Ancient Aliens

PodcastOne

134

TSRA Podcast

TSRA

135

Rain and Thunder Storms Podcast

Natural Podcasts

136

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

137

Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio

Vic Cundiff

138

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss

139

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

140

Podcast UFO

Producer: Donna Killeen

141

Pediatric Anesthesia Podcast

Pediatric Anesthesia

142

The Future of Everything

Stanford Engineering

143

The Leading Voices in Food

Duke World Food Policy Center

144

Carl Sagan

Podra Network

145

Calm Space

Calm Space

146

Robinson's Podcast

Robinson Erhardt

147

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica and Global Optimism

148

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

149

Living Planet

DW

150

Clinician's Brief: The Podcast

Clinician's Brief

151

The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

Atmos

152

Bedtime Astronomy

Synthetic Universe

153

Alberi e altri umani

Stefano Mancuso - Chora Media

154

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

155

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

156

Neuroscience: Amateur Hour

Neuroscience: Amateur Hour

157

Earthfiles Podcast with Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe

158

The Climate Question

BBC World Service

159

ExtinctZoo

ExtinctZoo

160

Ground Truths

Eric Topol

161

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

162

The Episodic Table of Elements

T. R. Appleton

163

Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

164

The Seán Chorus

HeadStuff Podcasts

165

Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast

The Naked Scientists

166

The House of Pod

Kaveh MD

167

NSF’s Discovery Files Podcast

U.S. National Science Foundation

168

Pale Blue Pod

Multitude

169

The Blended Science Podcast

Nkazi Mkhwanazi, PhD.

170

KLIMA UND KOHLE

Henrik te Heesen

171

Hematologic Oncology Update

Dr. Neil Love

172

PeerView Oncology & Hematology CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast

PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education

173

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

174

Deep Seed - Regenerative Agriculture

Raphael Esterhazy

175

The Plodcast

Our Media

176

Wild Times: Wildlife Education

Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante

177

Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill

Newstalk

178

IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung

Bayerischer Rundfunk

179

Wissen aktuell – Impuls

SWR

180

The Human Behavior Podcast

The Human Behavior Podcast

181

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

182

Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery Insights

Bruce A. Huberman DMD

183

SCCS podcast

Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage

184

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

185

The Addiction Psychologist

Samuel Acuff and Noah Emery

186

The Intern At Work: Internal Medicine

Medicine Pods: The Intern at Work

187

Okay, But... Birds

Dr. Scott Taylor

188

1000 Antworten

SWR

189

The Orthobullets Podcast

Orthobullets

190

Sound Healing / Sound Bath

Omandala Vietnam

191

Guardians of the River

Wild Bird Trust, NGOWP, House of Pod

192

Today's discussion

Infinity Peptides

193

Neurosurgery Podcast

Neurosurgery Podcast

194

Omnivore

Food Technology Magazine

195

Soil Matters

The British Society of Soil Science

196

Medscape InDiscussion: Ulcerative Colitis

Medscape

197

Blume & Ince - 2 Stimmen, 4 Kulturen

Prof. Dr. Inan Ince, Dr. Michael Blume

198

Wildly Curious

Katy Reiss & Laura Fawks Lapole

199

Geology Bites

Oliver Strimpel

200

aboutlogic

Deniz Sarikaya, Thorsten Altenkirch

201

Arthroscopy Podcast

AANA

202

Amazing Wildlife

Amazing Wildlife

203

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Newstalk

204

Why This Universe?

Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

205

Mongabay Newscast

Mongabay.com

206

Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

Accidental Gods

207

Water Resources Podcast

Bridget Scanlon

208

The Acres U.S.A. Podcast

Acres U.S.A.®

209

The Pet Food Science Podcast Show

Wisenetix

210

Radiowissen

Bayerischer Rundfunk

211

SunCast

Nico Johnson

212

Origin Stories

The Leakey Foundation

213

The Genetics Podcast

Sano Genetics

214

دغدغه ایران

محمد فاضلی

215

Safety Third

Safety Third

216

Our Long Walk

Johan Fourie and Jonathan Schoots

217

The Case for Conservation Podcast

www.case4conservation.com

218

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

219

This Week in Microbiology

Vincent Racaniello

220

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

221

Maths on the Move

plus.maths.org

222

The Green Room: A Podcast from Obstetrics & Gynecology

Obstetrics & Gynecology (Green Journal)

223

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

224

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

225

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

226

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

227

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

228

Bigfoot Crossroads

Matt Knapp

229

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

230

The Supermassive Podcast

The Royal Astronomical Society

231

Shirtloads of Science

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

232

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

233

SASQUATCH THEORY

SASQUATCH THEORY

234

The Elective Rotation: A Critical Care Hospital Pharmacy Podcast

Pharmacy Joe

235

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

236

The Dissenter

Ricardo Lopes

237

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

The Brain Docs

238

SNACC Podcast

SNACC

239

the orthoPA-c

Physician Associates in Orthopaedic Surgery | Sam Dyer, PA-C, MHS, Chuck Dowell, MS, PA-C, ATC, and Miles Gilbreath, PA-C, MCHS

240

ATTRA - Voices from the Field

NCAT

241

Quirks and Quarks

CBC

242

Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News

bitesz.com

243

The Science Show

ABC Australia

244

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

245

Off-Nominal

Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

246

The Skeptic Zone

Richard Saunders

247

Rare Earth

BBC Radio 4

248

My Bigfoot Sighting

Vic Cundiff

249

Nocturnal Worlds

Audiocraft

250

Instant Genius

Our Media

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