It's 1993. Preteen and baby millennials all want a Game Boy. They're playing with their beanie babies.

Gen Xers are glued to 90210.1. And Bill Clinton just got inaugurated. And then, somewhere in all of that, the NIH quietly made a huge change.

They finally said they'd ensure, quote, women and minorities are included in all

NIH-funded medical research in only 1993. Before that, most studies focused almost entirely

on men. So for Women's History Month, we're talking about how far we've come and how much

further we need to go.

For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin out there whose story we know there are probably

thousands more whose stories we don't know and who, for whatever reason, time and place and gender

were shortchanged.

Kitty Hafner is the founder of Lost Women in Science.

It's a podcast and platform that reveals the women whose contributions to science

have been overlooked or forgotten throughout history.

She'll talk with our producer, Teresa Carey, about the importance of preserving their

legacies to inspire future generations.

Then later, I'll talk with Teresa about how women scientists are leading the charge in developing male contraceptives. This field is highlighting how shared responsibility in contraception can benefit all genders,

changing the landscape of reproductive health.

But let's kick things off with a wild discovery of women made deep

in the heart of Texas, a brand new plant species with a devilish twist. I'm Dr. Samantha Amin,

and this is Curiosity Weekly from Discovery. Okay, I love this story, because for the first time

in nearly 50 years, a brand new plant species was discovered

in a U.S. National Park by park volunteer Deb Manley. She was exploring Big Bend National Park one day

and found something she had never really seen before. So she snapped a picture and uploaded it

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