The welfare system will come under pressure as the proportion of young people decreases and the proportion of older people increases. Professor Paul Sharp puts today's challenges into a historical perspective ahead of the SDU event 'Fewer young people, more older people: On the brink of the abyss?' on 12 March 2026.

Over-the-counter or prescription? Most of us have one or more medicinal products lying around at home. Here is a guide to handling your home pharmacy responsibly. What should you do with unused medicine? .

A research team has identified a new mechanism that controls DNA's ability to replicate - and thereby a cell's ability to divide. Since cancer cells are characterized by aggressive division, this discovery is significant for cancer research.

Communication tool can improve treatment outcomes for patients with high blood pressure and cholesterol A new study from the University of Southern Denmark shows that when people are given a clear and concrete understanding of their heart health alongside their usual treatment, they can achieve significant improvements in blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is now leveraging its existing supercomputer infrastructure to create virtual teaching laboratories for IT education. The initiative gives students access to high-end server environments and distributed systems while enabling SDU to keep full ownership of the teaching platform and ensure predictable, transparent use of resources.

In collaboration with European partners, researchers from SDU's Department of Green Technology will develop a new type of electrolyser that can produce green hydrogen more cheaply, sustainably, more efficiently, and without the use of PFAS, which is currently used.

Line Jelver, a newly appointed assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), has received DKK 13.3 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. By integrating advanced language models with supercomputers, she aims not only to accelerate the development of materials with tailor-made quantum mechanical properties but also to address the research world's enormous energy consumption.

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified a new virus in a common gut bacterium. The virus is found significantly more often in patients with colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western world and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

If you, as a user, want to protect your privacy, it is not enough to ask tech companies to delete your data. What the companies' AI models have learned from that data must also be unlearned. Researchers from SDU Applied AI and Data Science have now found a way to do this without weakening model performance.

Young researcher from SDU will help ensure sufficient critical resources for the green transition The green transition depends heavily on access to critical raw materials, which are currently subject to vulnerable supply chains in an uncertain world.

A new set of 56 international injury prevention recommendations highlights the specific risks and needs of female athletes. Merete Møller, a researcher at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, was part of the steering committee behind the recommendations.The University of Southern Denmark moves up to second place in the ShanghaiRanking 2025.

What does a lack of knowledge about women's health actually mean? Here are five clear answers to why both research and the healthcare system must focus more on women's health - with insights from Professor Lone Kjeld Petersen, Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the University of Southern Denmark.

Health Innovation Day 2026 brings together funders, researchers and frontrunners for a day focused on turning research into real-world solutions - and on finding inspiration for how research can make a tangible difference in practice.

Danish-Australian study shows that the effect of triple combination therapy depends on genetic changes in the tumour's signalling pathways.