Top Science Podcasts in South Africa

The latest Apple Podcasts Science chart for South Africa, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 1, 2026.

1

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

2

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

3

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

4

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

5

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

6

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson

7

Unexplainable

Vox

8

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

9

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

10

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

11

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

12

Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

13

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

Sean Carroll

14

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

15

Nature Podcast

Springer Nature Limited

16

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

17

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

18

BBC Inside Science

BBC Radio 4

19

The Birding Life Podcast Network

The Birding Life Podcast Network

20

Universe Today Podcast

Fraser Cain

21

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

22

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

23

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

24

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

25

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

26

The Orthobullets Podcast

Orthobullets

27

Astrum Space

Astrum

28

Discovery

BBC World Service

29

Emonthebrain

Emily McDonald

30

The Astrophysics Podcast

Paul Duffell

31

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

32

Are We Doomed?

NPR Network

33

Speaking of Psychology

American Psychological Association

34

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

35

Origin Stories

The Leakey Foundation

36

Unexpected Elements

BBC World Service

37

Science Weekly

The Guardian

38

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

39

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4

40

Ancient Aliens

PodcastOne

41

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

42

Change Your Mind with New Scientist

New Scientist

43

That's Absurd Please Elaborate

Trace Elements Media

44

Our Long Walk

Johan Fourie and Jonathan Schoots

45

Key Points

Maxwell J Harrell

46

Future Ecologies

Future Ecologies

47

Wissen Weekly

Spotify Studios

48

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

49

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

50

CrowdScience

BBC World Service

51

Paediatric Emergencies

Dr Christopher Flannigan

52

The OTA Podcast

OTA Podcast Committee

53

Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll

54

The Birding Life Youth Podcast

The Birding Life Youth

55

In Common

The In Common Team

56

The World, the Universe and Us

New Scientist

57

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media

58

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

iHeartPodcasts

59

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

60

Sleep Science

Sleep Science

61

Science Quickly

Scientific American

62

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

John Kempf

63

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

64

The Knepp Wilding Podcast

Knepp.co.uk

65

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

66

Natural Causes

Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

67

Guardians of the River

Wild Bird Trust, NGOWP, House of Pod

68

Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

69

The Episodic Table of Elements

T. R. Appleton

70

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

71

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

72

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

73

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

74

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

75

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape

76

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

77

Blood Podcast

American Society of Hematology

78

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

79

Not So Random Facts

Storyteller Entertainment

80

Bigfoot Society

Jeremiah Byron

81

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

82

The Joy of Why

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

83

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David Puder, M.D.

84

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

85

Relebogile Mabotja hosts The Naked Scientist

Radio 702

86

Short Wave

NPR

87

Babbage from The Economist

The Economist

88

This Week in Space (Audio)

TWiT

89

CME in Minutes: Education in Rheumatology, Immunology, & Infectious Diseases

Answers in CME

90

The Science of Everything Podcast

James Fodor

91

Robinson's Podcast

Robinson Erhardt

92

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

93

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

94

Paranormal Mysteries

Nic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast

95

Mammalwatching

Jon Hall & Charles Foley

96

Terrible Lizards

Iszi Lawrence and David Hone

97

The Climate Question

BBC World Service

98

Life Without

BBC Radio 4

99

The Life Scientific

BBC Radio 4

100

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

101

UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast

Gamut Podcast Network

102

The Future of Work Podcast

International Labour Organization

103

Periodically

University of Oxford Chemistry Department

104

Thoughtforms Life

Michael Levin

105

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

MapScaping

106

Prison Breakdown

Professors Beck Strah & Eric Bronson

107

NPP BrainPod

Springer Nature

108

Curiosity Unbounded

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

109

Podcast Area51

Area51

110

The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists

111

From First Principles

Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare

112

Почему мы еще живы

libo/libo

113

Wild Times: Wildlife Education

Wildlife Educator - Forrest Galante

114

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

115

Dr Karl Podcast

triplej

116

Farm Small Farm Smart

The Modern Grower Podcast Network

117

The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

Dr. Hubert Hiemstra

118

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Theories of Everything

119

The chemical breakdown & Chemistry in its element

Chemistry World

120

The Psychology Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

121

NOVA Remix

GBH

122

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Stuart Gary

123

Ophthalmology off the Grid by Eyetube

Eyetube

124

CREOGs Over Coffee

CREOGs Over Coffee

125

Particles of Thought

GBH

126

Instant Genius

Our Media

127

In Defense of Plants Podcast

In Defense of Plants

128

When autistic kids grow up

The Transmitter

129

Podcast UFO

Producer: Donna Killeen

130

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc.

131

Ask the Naked Scientists

Dr Chris Smith

132

Limitless Mindset (Videos)

Jonathan Roseland

133

Climate Curious

TEDxLondon

134

Das Wissen | SWR

SWR

135

Patterns Tell Stories

KLAɄЅ and GΔRRΞTT

136

A Neuroscientist Explains

The Guardian

137

The Human Behavior Podcast

The Human Behavior Podcast

138

Mathematics Simplified

Anjali Sharma

139

My Favorite Theorem

Kevin Knudson & Evelyn Lamb

140

Green Cover Podcast

Keith Berns

141

The Peter Byck Show

Peter Byck

142

Field, Lab, Earth

ASA, CSSA, SSSA

143

Fresh Thinking by Snowden Optiro

Snowden Optiro

144

Why This Universe?

Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

145

TamingtheSRU

UC Department of Emergency Medicine

146

Let's Learn Everything!

Maximum Fun

147

Master Brewers Podcast

Master Brewers Association of the Americas (MBAA)

148

Wildest Kruger Stories

Karolina Norée

149

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters

150

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

151

Students of Surgery

Martin Brand

152

Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing

Merraki Media LLC

153

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

RCPsych

154

Crash Course Pods: The Universe

Crash Course Pods, Complexly

155

Radiowissen

Bayerischer Rundfunk

156

Physics World Weekly Podcast

Physics World

157

Bedtime Astronomy

Synthetic Universe

158

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories

159

The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine

160

The Numberphile Podcast

Brady Haran

161

Science Communication Accelerator - scicomX (scicomm, social media, and digital science marketing)

Julius Wesche

162

Houston We Have a Podcast

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

163

Clinician's Brief: The Podcast

Clinician's Brief

164

Songs 4 FRCR: Radiology FRCR 2A Revision

FRCR Revision

165

playing god?

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

166

Frankly Speaking About Family Medicine

Pri-Med

167

Earthlings 2.0 Podcast

Lisa Ann Pinkerton

168

Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast

The Naked Scientists

169

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

170

Safety Third

Safety Third

171

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

172

Cool Worlds Podcast

coolworldslab

173

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

174

Clinically Thinking

Clinically Thinking

175

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

176

La Science CQFD

France Culture

177

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

178

Ideas in Development

Ideas in Development

179

Science Fictions

Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

180

Mendelspod Podcast

Theral Timpson

181

Safari Stories

John Lister

182

Nocturnal Worlds

Audiocraft

183

Oceans: Life Under Water

Crowd Network | Greenpeace UK

184

Infectious Disease Puscast

Vincent Racaniello

185

HOLOSKY PODCAST

Holosky Podcast

186

Seacreatures

Matt Testoni

187

Making Sense with Sam Harris | 5 minute podcast summaries

5 minute podcast summaries

188

Waterlands

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

189

The Seán Chorus

HeadStuff Podcasts

190

PeerVoice Immunology & Infectious Disease Video

PeerVoice

191

Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

paul wheaton

192

The Beef Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast

Wisenetix

193

de-CIPHERing Infectious Disease

CIPHER

194

The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu

theliuniverse

195

Farming Today

BBC Radio 4

196

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

197

The Quantum Curious | Deep Sleep Physics

Quantum Curious

198

eanCast: Weekly Neurology

ean.org

199

Star Diary

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

200

6 Ranch Podcast

James Nash

201

inControl

Alberto Padoan

202

New Books in Psychoanalysis

Marshall Poe

203

Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News

bitesz.com

204

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

205

Ondertussen in de kosmos

de Volkskrant

206

Terrace | تراس

امیرپارسا نشاط

207

Pandemia

Kai Kupferschmidt, Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt

208

Third Pod from the Sun

American Geophysical Union

209

NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

210

Ocean Sounds - 12 Hours

Natural Podcasts

211

עושים היסטוריה עם ערן ניצן Osim Historia

רשת עושים היסטוריה

212

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

213

Rare Earth

BBC Radio 4

214

My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell - Unifying Mind and Matter

Thomas Campbell together with the MBT Volunteers

215

Lost Women of Science

Lost Women of Science

216

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

217

Flooba

A Sensory Sound Space for Neurodivergent Minds

218

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica and Global Optimism

219

The Genomics Lab

Olivia Grant

220

De Grote Visite

Nederlandse Internisten Vereniging

221

American Innovations

Audible

222

MinuteEarth

Minute Earth

223

UFO Witnesses

Mysterious Radio

224

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Tony Santore

225

Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt

Deutschlandfunk

226

The Neil Ashton Podcast

Neil Ashton

227

BirdNote Daily

BirdNote

228

Culpa do Cérebro

Andrei Mayer

229

ExtinctZoo

ExtinctZoo

230

Plant People

New York Botanical Garden

231

The Horse First: A Veterinary Sport Horse Podcast

Audrey DeClue, DVM

232

Essential Scholars

Fraser Institute

233

Bench Boost by Inorganic Ventures

Inorganic Ventures

234

Curiosity Weekly

Discovery

235

Synapsen – ein Wissenschaftspodcast

NDR Info

236

A Life More Wild

Canopy & Stars

237

Plantopia

The American Phytopathological Society (APS)

238

Math Deep Dive

Mathematics Podcast

239

Beastly History

Wild Beast

240

RCOG

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

241

Astronomy Cast

Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay

242

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243

Neuroscience of Coaching

Mirasee FM

244

The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology

Sebastian Hassinger

245

Let's Talk Quality

Hemish Ilangaratne

246

All About Animals

All About Animals Radio

247

The Bright Idea

Stanford Law Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program

248

IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung

Bayerischer Rundfunk

249

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

250

Manifold

Steve Hsu

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