When a Marine gets hit by a laser beam, his weapon gets de-activated.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

When you touch boiling water, for example,get a cut, or even exercise too much, a special receptor on the neuron is activated, sending a signal to the brain - that hurts!.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

It took several years of further experiments and analysis, but During and his colleagues ultimately concluded that the mild stress of all that activity and interaction activated a communication channel that prompts fat cells to stop releasing a hormone called leptin, which accelerates cancer growth.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14