2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/121323This article briefly summarizes the motivations for -- and recent progress in -- searching for cosmological configurations within string theory, with a focus on how much we might reasonably hope to learn about fundamental physics from precision cosmological measurements.Some references added; Invited contribution to the 40th Rencontres de Moriond, La Thuile, March 2006. (LaTeX 10 pages)High Energy Physics - Theorytext