The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to rea...
Insights from recent episode analysis
Audience Interest
- science news
- critical thinking
Podcast Focus
- latest science news
- critical thinking skills
Publishing Consistency
- weekly episodes
- 21 years active
Platform Reach
- available on multiple platforms
- website for direct access
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Total monthly reach
Based on 1 signal.
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By chart position
- 🇺🇸United States · ScienceHOME#21203K to 1.1M
- 🇦🇺Australia · Science#1314K to 73K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Science#1712K to 65K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Science#337.6K to 40K
- 🇮🇩ID · Science#145.3K to 28K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
270K to 1.4M🎙 Weekly cadence·915 episodes·Last published 4d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
541K to 2.9M🇺🇸75%🇦🇺5%🇨🇦5%+9 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
216K to 1.1M
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Platform Distribution
Reach across major podcast platforms, updated hourly
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 10/17/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1110 - Oct 17 2026 | Flu Season; News Items: Future Forests, Carbon Nanotube Product, Rethinking Normal, Smart Clothing; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lab Leak Theory; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 10/10/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1109 - Oct 10 2026 | AI Update; News Items: 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry, Reading Fiction; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Sleep and Consciousness; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 10/3/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1108 - Oct 3 2026 | Special Guests: Christian Hubicki and Julia Novella; Designing Your Dream Costume; Conspiracy Theories; News Items: Stellar Streams and Dark Matter, Possible Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, IgNobels 2026, Pet Bird Research, Speedrunning Video Games; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 9/26/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1107 - Sep 26 2026 | Interview with Adam Kall and Troy Morris; What's the Word: Application; Whatever Happened to Lab Grown Meat; News Items: The Brain is a Composite Organ, Independence of Science Grants, NYT Shills for Fake Psychics; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 9/19/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1106 - Sep 19 2026 | News Items: How Dangerous is AI, Memories of 9-11, Solar is Booming, GPT-6 Astra, Frisson; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Educating Children; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 9/12/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1105 - Sep 12 2026 | With Special Guest Christian Hubicki; Updating the Matrix; News Items: Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, Training Baby Robots, Testing Gravity in Space; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 9/5/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1104 - Sep 5 2026 | Live from LA with guests Andrea Jones Rooy and Brian Wecht; Living in LA; What Ever Happened To: Breakthrough Starshot, Fen-phen, The Coming Hydrogen Economy, String Theory, The Segway, Going to Mars; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 8/27/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1103 - Aug 29 2026 | What's the word: Encephalopathy; News Items: AI Assisted Research Training, Robot Outruns Humans, Latest CTE Study, Bacteria Share Survival Genes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Peptides vs Proteins, Stellarator; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 8/22/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1102 - Aug 22 2026 | News Items: Drone Delivery System, Human Taxonomy, Peptide Wellness Fad, NASA Radiation Vest; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Model Railroaders, Leechbook, Genetic Diversity; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 8/15/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1101 - Aug 15 2026 | News Items: Trump Order on Vaccines, Spying with WiFi, Diminishing Vegetables, Two Origins of Life, More Pentagon UFOs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thousand Year Old Remedy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
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| 8/8/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1100 - Aug 8 2026 | Live from Christchurch with guests George Hrab, Andrea Jones-Rooy, and Brian Wecht; Special Segment: SGU Down Under; News Items: Telescope Ranch, The Fate of Earth, The Science of Community, Terraforming Mars, Fauci Under Fire, AI Satellites, AI Solves 90 Year Math Puzzle; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 8/1/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1099 - Aug 1 2026 | Live from CSIcon Buffalo; CSI 50th Anniversary; News Items: Artemis III Crew Announced, Sniffing Out the Spotted Lanternfly, Human Echolocation, Are Cold Stars Alien Megastructures, Ediacaran Sex; Interview with Michael Mann, Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/25/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1098 - Jul 25 2026 | Live From Madison Wisconsin; Amending the Constitution; News Items: Believing in the Supernatural, Desalinating Water, Superheavy Cosmic Rays, AI Designed Bioweapons; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/18/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1097 - Jul 18 2026 | Live from Seattle; Theaters vs Home Streaming; News Items: The Enshittification of Academic Publishing, Ending Forever Plastic, Reanalysis of Type Ia Supernova, Manipulating Gravitational Waves; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/11/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1096 - Jul 11 2026 | Special Guest: David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Two States of Water; News Items: Using AI To Detect AI Cheating, Teens Using AI Chatbots, NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Method, SETI Partly Explains Fermi; Skeptical Philosophy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/4/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1095 - Jul 4 2026 | Back to Basics: Scientific Skepticism; News Items: Synthetic Cells, Trust in Science, Geothermal Update, Solar Corona Heating; Quickie with Cara: Radiation Eating Fungus; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Responses to Evan; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/27/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1094 - Jun 27 2026 | Evan Leaves SGU; News Items: Paying attention, How Queen Bees are Made, Canceling Wind, Goodbye International Space Station, US Military Restores Flu Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/20/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1093 - Jun 20 2026 | Guests George Hrab and Andrea Jones Rooy; SGU Down Under; News Items: Donut Lab Battery Follow up, Fungal Superhighway, Echochambers and Radicalization, Payam Method, Strength Training and Longevity; Who's That Noisy; ADIct game; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/13/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026 | Quickie with Steve: Ebola Update; News Items: Ben Franklin's Anti-Counterfeiting Innovations, Mars Maven, Human Cooperation, Pre Cambrian Animal Senses, Peudoscience Protection Bill; Your Questions and E-mails: Sucking, Audio Cables; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1091 - Jun 6 2026 | Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; Quickie with Bob: Meteor over New England; News Items: While House Proposal on Science Funding, Medical Aid in Dying, AI Attention, Expensive Audio Cables; The Science of Survivor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/30/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1090 - May 30 2026 | I Learned Today: How Toilets Flush; News Items: Autism Clinics, Errors in Climate Change Database, Weekly Exercise, Why Birds Fear Women, Latest Ebola Outbreak; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/23/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026 | News Items: Sleep and Aging, Mental Number Maps, Digital Privacy, ArXiv Bans AI Produced Work, T-Rex Leather; Who's That Noisy; Obsoletely; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/16/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1088 - May 16 2026 | News Items: The Interstitium and Acupuncture, Climate Change Food Insecurity, Neanderthal Dentistry, Tiny Robots, More UFO Nonsense; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI Consciousness; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/9/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026 | Interview with Philosopher David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Exotic Matter; News Items: When Are Screening Tests Necessary, Dawkins Writes LLMs are Conscious, Iron Flow Batteries, Haunting with Friends; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/2/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1086 - May 2 2026 | Back to Basics: Pareidolia and Apophenia; News Items: Smart Watch Health Metric Errors, Space Debris Hitting the Moon, Evolvable AI, Merging Quazars, Longevity Escape Velocity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Stem Cell Hype; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
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About the show, platforms, and key insights.
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What the show covers
- latest science news
- critical thinking skills
- debunking bad science
- controversial topics
Audience interests
- science news
- critical thinking
- bad science
- conspiracy theories
Platform reach
- available on multiple platforms
- website for direct access
- growing audience base
- no specific platforms listed
Publishing consistency
- weekly episodes
- 21 years active
- over 900 episodes
- consistent release schedule
Chart history for The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Peaked at #12 in New Zealand, currently #12 in New Zealand.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| Australia | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| South Africa | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| ID | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| PT | — | #15 | #15 | — |
| Canada | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| Norway | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| RO | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| KE | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| Sweden | — | #20 | #20 | — |
| United States | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| Ireland | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| Finland | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| Denmark | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| IS | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #33 | #33 | — |
| SG | — | #36 | #36 | — |
| Brazil | — | #39 | #39 | — |
| AR | — | #42 | #42 | — |
| PH | — | #46 | #46 | — |
Chart Positions
45 placements across 45 markets.
Chart Positions
45 placements across 45 markets.