Can “ and “ tags be used in the HTML editor?

Mostly no, but you shouldn’t do that anyway.

The exception, is if your user has the unfiltered_html capability, which is a dangerous power to have. Users that have this are admins on a single site install, or a super admin on a multisite install.

But, there are major security downside to putting script and style tags directly into articles.

For CSS, it’s unnecessary, the customizer has a built in CSS editor. If your theme is built correctly, the body tag and main article/post tag will have IDs and classes you can use to target specific posts

For Javascript, this should be in the theme or a plugin. Entering javascript into the database opens up a security can of worms. If you must do it, do it via a custom field and some code, or a plugin. Don’t do it via post content