2001: A Spacetime Odyssey - A lecture on colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang by Paul Steinhardt.
Brane Cosmology - The aim of these lectures is to give a brief introduction to brane cosmology
Branes for Relativists - The purpose of this manuscript is to provide a pedagogical account of the brane technology so that the relativists can use branes in their study.
Cosmology in a Brane Universe - This lecture presents the cosmological models with extra dimensions that have been recently elaborated, which assume that ordinary matter is confined on a surface, called brane, embedded in a higher dimensional spacetime.
A Cyclic Universe - An article from Sky & Telescope on the ekpyrotic universe model.
The Cyclic Universe - An informal introduction to the models of the universe which use higher dimension branes.
A Recycled Universe - A scientific american article on the brane-world models of the Universe