The piece decries a 'gold-rush mentality' where 'corporate and government funding may warp research priorities'.

The group's research priorities are being set after it asked its scientists what questions needed to be asked.

The foundation's enormous wealth has even raised fears that it could distort research priorities.

The 163000sqft m2, six-story building features an open, atelier-style, adaptable architecture specifically designed to provide the flexibility to respond to emerging research priorities.

Due to increasing air pollution and research priorities switching back to night-time astronomy, scientific observations of the sun were ceased in the 1980s.