2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/178099In brane-worlds, our universe is assumed to be a submanifold, or brane, embedded in a higher-dimensional bulk spacetime. Focusing on scenarios with a curved five-dimensional bulk spacetime, I discuss their gravitational and cosmological properties.Invited talk at the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2005 "The Next Chapter in Einstein's Legacy", Kyoto, 27 June- 1 July 2005High Energy Physics - TheoryAstrophysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext