Several unitarily invariant norm inequalities and numerical radius inequalities for Hilbert space operators are studied. We investigate some necessary and sufficient conditions for the parallelism of two bounded operators. For a finite rank operator A, it is shown that ||A||p <= (rank A)1/2p||A||2p <= (rank A)(2p-1)/2p2 ||A||2p2, for all p >= 1 where ||center dot||pis the Schatten p-norm. If {lambda n(A)} is a listing of all non-zero eigenvalues (with multiplicity) of a compact operator A, then we show that || n |lambda n(A)|p <= 1 ||A||p 1 p + ||A2||p/2 p/2, for all p >= 2 2 2 which improves the classical Weyl's inequality n |lambda n(A)|p <= ||A||pp [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 1949]. For an n x n matrix A, we show that the function p -> n-1/p||A||pis monotone increasing on p >= 1, complementing the well known decreasing nature of p -> Ap. As an application of these inequalities, we provide an upper bound for the sum of the absolute values of the zeros of a complex polynomial. As another application we provide a refined upper bound for the energy of a graph G, namely, E(G) <= 2m (rank Adj(G)), where m is the number of edges, improving on a bound by McClelland in 1971. (c) 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.